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...Duvalier years, he was a shadowy figure whose picture never appeared in newspapers. A short man in a starched white shirt who now walks slowly and with a cane, Desyr protested his innocence over and over, producing a thin black Bible from his pocket and proclaiming somewhat incoherently in awkward French, "I am a good Christian. I am a Protestant. I am a Baptist...
...Connell, a Washington political consultant. "Now we're going to go ahead and do what we said we would do." Never mind that a presidential draft has not succeeded in modern times. Never mind that the avenue presenting the fewest technical barriers for the campaign would be an awkward "national surrogate" strategy involving a stand-in who would go on the stump, presumably pressing palms and kissing babies for Iacocca. There is no direct precedent for a substitute enunciating the views of a silent and absent candidate. Such a campaign would draw close FEC scrutiny if it attempted...
...children attended college in Massachusetts. "The reason Barco has trouble speaking in public," one campaign quip went, "is that he thinks in English." For now, Barco is thinking cautiously. "I received a great backing in the elections," he says, "but at the same time, a great responsibility." The ca awkward orator knows full well that the time has come for action...
Melendez regrets that for all his success at Harvard, he has not been able to overcome his own insecurities. "I'm very uncomfortable at parties; I'm very awkward at dealing with people; I can't ask women out on dates for the most part--although I can ask people for votes and I can try to persuade people to think like I do," he says. "I'm not afraid of crowds and speaking to people. I'm afraid of small groups where I have to be myself rather than be an officer of the Undergraduate Council or a public...
...allied leaders were also upset. Reagan promised to take their views into account when the matter is discussed at another NSC meeting, perhaps this week. Abandoning SALT II would be a blow to the sputtering arms-control talks that resumed in Geneva last week. The timing could also be awkward: the Soviets are now hinting that they may agree to a Washington summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in December, just when the breach would occur...