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...press conference in Birmingham later in the day, Bush proceeded to dig himself in deeper. Asked to confirm the wording of his remark, he replied, "I didn't use 'a little' " (the tape established that he had, though). He agreed that he had used "an old Texas football expression" and added, "I stand behind it." He would not apologize to Ferraro, he said, because the remark was not aimed at her. "It was a way of assessing victory. She would understand this. She's a good competitor." Ferraro's comment: "I would not address my opponent in the same...
...fact, the former MP from Meriden, England (just east of Birmingham) has only one semester of teaching experience under big belt. For the last 30 years, he's been spending his time in academic research, journalism, and Parliament, moving from one to the next...
...Derbyshire voters didn't think so, and placed him third in a three-way race. 16.8 percent behind the leader, one Edwina Currie, a schoolteacher and Birmingham city councilor...
HOSPITALIZED. George Wallace, 65, Alabama Governor who has been confined to a wheelchair since an assassination attempt in 1972; for treatment of a chronic urinary-tract infection, an ailment common among paraplegics; in University Hospital in Birmingham...
...children would be drinking milk with strontium 90." This line has its dangers: it sometimes sounds slightly whiny, and it veers perilously close to the kind of ad hominem attack on a highly popular President that could backfire. Mondale has also flubbed his remarks; at a rally in Birmingham, he said "Mr. America" instead of "Mr. Reagan." On the other hand, Mondale has begun to make an issue of the heckling, rebuking both the protesters ("We will be heard!" he shouts) and their hero, Reagan. Says Mondale: "If I thought anybody was doing this to him on my behalf...