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...Britain's 150-mile exclusion zone around the islands, replacement of the Falklands garrison of some 4,300 British troops and workers by a U.N. force, and a halt to construction of a $319 million civilian-military Falklands airport. Neither side was budging on the bedrock issue: Argentina's claim to the Falklands and Britain's firm position that the islands have belonged to Britain without interruption since 1833, and that at the very least, the 1,800 Falkland Islands residents have the right to determine how they are to be ruled. Even so, the two governments...
...There's a tough situation ahead of us," admits one Republican National Committee strategist, Ceci Cole. "Our incumbents are vulnerable and half of the Democratic incumbents are from bedrock Democratic states...
...victory in 1980. Reagan's relative lack of support among women, Blacks and labor unions could mean the loss of large industrial states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois, which Reagan was able to carry narrowly in 1980. This would in turn increase the pressure on Reagan to hold his bedrock conservative constituencies in the South and the West...
...WEST is solid Reagan country, the bedrock of his electoral victory four years ago. In 1980, Reagan won more than a hundred electoral votes by carrying every state: in the West except Hawaii. He looks likely to repeat this trick in 1984 and win states like Arizona, Oregon, Wyoming, and the big prize, California (45 electoral votes), against almost any Democratic candidate--especially Mondale. The only Democrat right now who could give him a lot of trouble is Cranston, but the California senator is struggling right now in the East and shows little sign of being able to last even...
...before-and-after photographs, palpably depicting the burdens of the Oval Office: rosy, beaming President-elect vs. haggard, wan incumbent. But Reagan, now the oldest President in history, seems to have grown more robust since his Inauguration. After three years his optimism appears undimmed, his faith in bedrock conservative notions unshaken. "His perspective is unusual," explains one White House aide of the boss's remarkable equanimity. "Someone 35 years old sees hills and valleys every day, but the President just sees dips in the road. He rides above...