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...Where's the beef?" How old is Gary Hartpence? Certain things will not be so readily forgotten: Mario Cuomo's keynote address at the Democratic Convention at one extreme, and George Bush's gee-whillikerisms at the other. The television debates-strangely useless and useful-will await their playbacks in 1988. Two forces in American politics certainly will not go away: women and blacks. Two issues, abortion and church and state, will not go away either. It should be interesting to see how they are dealt with outside the shouting matches of a competition for office...
Among the more than 125,000 Cuban refugees who poured into South Florida in the 1980 boatlift from the port of Mariel were a few thousand "excludable aliens," many of whom had criminal records in Cuba. Four years later, 1,500 of them still await resolution of their cases, a mass of increasingly desperate men locked in the granite cell blocks of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Last Thursday the Marielitos rioted, setting mattresses and clothing afire amid shouts of "?Libertad...
...wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third in the initial competition, to design an added element. Last week his statue of seven-foot-tall bronze figures was set in place opposite the wall to await a formal unveiling on Nov. 9. Hart depicts three typical fighting men "gazing at a vision of war, its loss, its enormity . . . peering into our own eternity, perhaps even searching for their names on the wall." Those who have seen it believe that all sides will be more than satisfied...
...announced that in view of inflation during the past twelve months, deductions, exemptions and tax brackets will be adjusted upward by 4.1% next year. Tax indexing was part of the Reagan Administration's 1981 tax-reduction act. Similar inflation adjustments will now be made annually. The following changes await taxpayers...
...necessary damage control and to help shape the all-important "spin" the press will put on the encounters, Baker ordered top White House aides to be available to reporters for debate postmortems, particularly televised ones. He believes that the voters await the judgments of pundits and TV commentators about who won and who lost before making up their own minds...