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First stop on Friday morning was Arlington National Cemetery, where an hour-long memorial service was held for the eight servicemen* who died in the aborted raid in Iran. After meeting beforehand with the families of the dead men, Carter delivered a nine-minute eulogy. "It is not the length of life," he said, "that determines its impact or its quality, but the depth of its commitment and the height of its purpose." While Carter spoke, his voice was firm. But later, when a lone bugler played taps, when six Thunderbird jets swooped across the sky in the "missing...
...loveseats or leaned against the walls. At the bar, wine cost four marks; all other drinks cost six. Jon soon reappeared, and he bought us both something sweet. Margrit's friend, a pianist, asked us to come to his private recital the next day, and invited us for tea beforehand...
...wins (and with his well-oiled Massachusetts campaign machinery, he could capture 35 per cent of the vote), the victory will simply help him shift into higher gear and take in more contributions from his increasing number of college-educated, upper-income supporters. Others can write off the state beforehand and blame Bush's Andover and Yale backgroung for a strong New England showing...
...only domestic reporter who is not edited beforehand is White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson, or "Sudden Sam," as he is sometimes called because his taped reports come in so close to deadline. Today, for instance, Donaldson is so busy tracking down news of a possible hostage settlement with Iran that he does not finish taping his stand-up report from the White House lawn until two minutes before air time. Still, Donaldson has discussed his reports and has gone through a kind of verbal editing earlier...
Kennedy's new course was set in his biggest speech of the campaign, delivered at Georgetown University in Washington last Monday. Beforehand, his aides had argued heatedly how far he should go in stating his views. Finally, Kennedy had pounded his desk and ended the dispute: "Don't tell me what I can't say. If I'm going down, I'm going to go down fighting for the things I believe in." Later he added: "When my grandchildren ask me 20 years from now why I ran for President...