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...after Super Tuesday III?the final day of one of the most grueling, frenetic and unpredictable primary seasons ever. Now on election eve Mondale's campaign plane was over California, nearing the end of a 25-hour, 5,620-mile coast-to-coast blitz. The candidate had been in fine fettle, rousing partisan audiences in New Jersey, West Virginia and New Mexico. He seemed somehow to be thriving on the hectic pace and its near sleepless nights. Finally confident that the elusive goal was at hand, the Minnesotan's staff broke out bottles and let spirits soar. The former Vice...
...Salvadorans prepared to head for the polls last Sunday in the second and final round of presidential elections, the candidates launched the usual last-minute blitz of charges and countercharges. But one campaigner found some surprising ammunition. Hugo Barrera, the vice-presidential nominee of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), made public the text of a letter from Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina to President Reagan demanding the removal of the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Thomas Pickering. Helms accused Pickering of manipulating the elections, specifically by urging the country's provisional President, Alvaro Maga...
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Hart proved that a media blitz could overcome both his own late start and Mondale's once vaunted edge in organization. In Oklahoma, Mondale had put together what some pols called the most professional organization ever seen in the state, while Hart did not even have an office there twelve days before the vote. Nonetheless, a last-minute surge of Hart newspaper and TV ads helped draw a record crowd of about 42,000 to the state's caucuses last Tuesday, and Hart scored a 42%-to-40% upset. In Florida, an early-February poll turned up only...
...Democratic Congressman Paul Simon of Illinois in early February submitted legislation to amend the National Labor Relations Act. "The court's decision was so total," said Captain Henry Duffy, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, "if this doesn't gear up organized labor for a massive blitz on Congress, nothing will...