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...hearing the bells of the ice cream truck, the talk of the convention concerned the maudlin tone of the convention speeches. "This isn't a convention," went a common refrain, "it's Queen for a Day." There's no doubt that this year Democrats gave us not only a balloon drop and a confetti drop but a treacle drip of steadily increasing dosage as well. I found myself cheerfully ascending to high dudgeon--until it hit me that we in the television business bear much of the blame for this corruption of public speech...
...things like go for a cup of coffee on a whim. Whenever I leave the house, it's a huge operation. I have the nurses. The van has to be equipped with an oxygen tank, emergency meds and an Ambu bag, which is like a balloon used to pump air into someone manually. We had an episode when I was coming back from New York one time in the winter, and the vent failed just as we were coming up the driveway to the house. We needed the Ambu bag to ventilate me until we could...
...indifference to the Republican hoopla in San Diego. And Kemp? "We'll kill him on his economic ideas," says a White House strategist. The Clinton campaign was already running TV spots last week blasting Dole's Kemp-flavored tax-cut ideas as a "risky, last-minute scheme that would balloon the deficit." And Kemp's charisma, say the President's advisers, will only make Dole seem more inert...
...credibility. But the Republican hopeful could be creating a credibility chasm of his own. His proposed tax cuts are so enormous--$551 billion over six years, according to the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee--as to leave him wide open to charges that they will cause the federal deficit to balloon. And thanks in no small part to the decades-long preaching of a former Senator named Robert J. Dole, polls lately indicate the public prefers lower deficits to lower taxes. So, in fact, do Republican Convention delegates. Some 1,000 of them, polled for TIME and CNN by Yankelovitch Partners...
...threat of terrorism can never be entirely erased. Tightening airport security is like squeezing one end of a balloon: if airlines become too difficult a target, terrorists will point their weapons at a bulge elsewhere. "There is always," says international terrorism expert Victor LeVine, a professor at Washington University, "some window of opportunity." Whether an act of terrorism brought down TWA Flight 800 or not, some of those windows could be closed before tragedy can strike again...