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Republican Strategist Stuart Spencer observes that "right now, you can take a blanket and throw it over the top five candidates; they're that close." The winner, adds Spencer, "will be the one who has the money to spend on television in the final weeks." All told, the G.O.P. hopefuls are expected to spend some $9 million. So far the champion cash collector and the candidate with the most media sizzle is Zschau, 46, a former Stanford business professor and successful electronics entrepreneur (founder of System Industries, Inc.) who has earned broad respect after only two terms in Congress...
...Snoopy (Rob McManus) who sparkles as the feline-hating World War I flying ace. Lucy Van Pelt (Ann Henry) is the obnoxious big-sister and homespun-psychiatrist that we've come to expect. Blanket-armed Linus (Ron Duvernay), Lucy's brother, is an intellectual version of the picked-on innocent. And Schroeder (Biggs) and his piano, are sweetly in line with the musical prodigy Schultz penned. The only unrecognizable old-timer is Peppermint Patty (Jennifer Joss). In the strip she is a loveably irritating tomboy. Joss turns her into a shallow, bubbly valley-girl...
...Administration's changing sanctuary policy may well run afoul of Congress. "I think it is unfair as hell to permit blanket asylum for Nicaraguans and not for Salvadorans," protested Arizona's Democratic Senator , Dennis DeConcini. He has a bill pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee that would give Salvadoran refugees the same status as that being considered for Nicaraguans...
...today, knows that the divestiture movement rests more on moral outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...
Despite the President's rhetoric, many Administration officials realize that a blanket pledge to aid anti-Communist insurgencies everywhere entails unacceptable risks. Angola is a case in point. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker revealed to a congressional committee last week that the U.S. had set "the process in motion" to provide some $15 million in covert funds to the rebels in Angola. The State Department hopes that the covert aid will forestall a conservative effort in Congress to mandate above-board funding...