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...Reagan as an old man stumbling and looking horrified at the candidate he is supposed to defeat. The shiny armor was stripped away in the first debate, and the country must have seen what I saw. Reagan...
...Helms' commercials have had their desired effect. The senator has gradually chipped away at Hunt's "moderate" armor, portraying the governor as both a wishy-washy leader and a "closet left-winger." Helms, in speeches and commercials, depicts Hunt as a "Mondale liberal" who frequently associates with blacks, homosexuals, feminists, and atheists...
...survivability of its Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, a cannon-equipped personnel carrier. A Pentagon memo made public past week, written by a colonel well acquainted with the vehicle, criticized the Army's failure to submit the Bradley to realistic tests. The $1.5 million vehicle is clad with aluminum armor that some critics claim would vaporize when hit by high-explosive antitank projectiles, creating a deadly fireball inside the fuel-and ammunition-laden tank. The manufacturer claims the tank's armor "does not burn when hit." So far, the Army has refused to load a Bradley with fuel...
Whenever a political figure moves to front-and-center stage, cartoonists search for a stereotype of him that will be instantly recognizable to the public in whatever armor, spaceman's suit or caveman's costume the artist puts him in to get a smile or make a point. Jeff MacNelly of the Chicago Tribune insists that the public too must have some clear visual impression of a person before "we can get a little crazy in caricaturing him with a kind of shorthand." The Universal Press Syndicate's Pat Oliphant says, "I hate changes of Administrations...
Trailing 1-0, Templeton's double ignited a three-run fifth inning against Cubs right-hander Dennis Eckersley. The Padres finally had found a chink in the Cuba pitching armor, which had held San Diego to only 11 hits and two runs in the two previous playoff games, which Chicago had won at home...