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...that he was steadily gaining. On Monday he played Peoria, Ill., and played it well, his voice getting richer and stronger throughout the day. At a campaign-closing rally in a shopping mall near San Diego, a few hecklers kept screaming "ERA!" Reagan stopped in mid-sentence and snapped, "Aw, shut up!" The crowd erupted with cheers of "Reagan!" The candidate cocked his head, grinned and said: "My mother always told me that I should never say that. But this is the last night of a long campaign, and I thought just once I could say it." It was Reagan...
...mental list of topics he was going to get in, no matter the question or Reagan's response. The President was constantly on the attack with charges that Reagan's views on foreign policy and nuclear arms were reckless. But the Republican proved adept at delivering aw-shucks parries to Carter's thrusts. Indeed, Reagan had carefully rehearsed them before the debate in the garage of his rented Virginia estate, with Republican Representative David Stockman of Michigan playing Carter's role. As Stockman zinged charges, Reagan tried out two or three retorts before settling...
Following a series of bitter verbal attacks by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Saudi Arabia abruptly severed diplomatic relations with Tripoli. Gaddafi had charged the Saudis with "desecrating" Islam's sacred shrines in Mecca by allowing U.S. AW ACS surveillance planes to fly protective reconnaissance missions over the country's oilfields. The radical Libyan leader also called for a pan-Islamic jihad, or holy war, to "liberate the house of God in Mecca" - in effect, an incitement to overthrow the Saudi government. Saudi Arabia's normally placid King Khalid angrily denounced Gaddafi as "a Muslim outcast who deserves...
...killed if we let the perception of racism and nuclear war set in without countering it." Some aides argued that he should respond to the President's tactics with strong language of his own. Others urged Reagan to play it cool, claiming that the candidate's mild, aw-shucks style would make Carter's attacks boomerang...
Armchair admirals in Newport attributed the terrible trials of Terrible Ted to outside distractions (his new Cable News Network and the Atlanta Braves) and to lack of motivation. "Aw, that's a bunch of bull," Turner says. "I've got too much responsibility to spend all my time screwing around in sailboats, but it doesn't affect me on the race course...