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...John Brademas of Indiana. His opponent, Republican Businessman John Hiler, is working the factory gates for the blue-collar vote in a district that includes Elkhart County, where unemployment is nearly 16%. Trailing 12 points in the polls, Brademas is pouring tens of thousands of dollars into a media blitz that attacks Hiler as a tool of Big Oil because he opposes the windfall-profits tax. In Texas, House Majority Leader Jim Wright is in the toughest fight of his career against Jim Bradshaw, a former city council member in Fort Worth who has been aided by a surge...
Crane has enough money left in his $300,000 budget for a last-minute TV blitz. But Evans, who has a $225,000 budget, is running short of funds and has to rely on a makeshift approach to reach large numbers of voters. Taking a tip from the old Burma Shave advertisements, he is setting up a series of signs on a busy highway in the district. They read: I'M NOT A LAWYER/ OR A DOCTOR/ DON'T CHARGE HIGH FEES/ I'M HERE WHEN YOU NEED ME/ AND THERE WHEN IT COUNTS/ RE-ELECT DAVE...
Iraq's initial blitz had clearly failed to produce anything like the swift and easy victory that Baghdad may have anticipated. Iraq evidently miscalculated Iran's military resilience. After an initial withdrawal in the face of the Iraqis' surprise invasion along a 500-mile front, Iran rebounded with a vengeance. Iraqi claims about the capture of four cities inside Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province in the first week of fighting proved to be embarrassingly premature. While Iranian main forces, an amalgam of Islamic Revolutionary Guards, border guards and army troops, took on the Iraqi regulars...
...Reagan, he sought to exploit Carter's absence from the League of Women Voters' debate by launching an ad blitz on Sunday and Monday. The setting was an empty podium. A woman's voice said: "Maybe he won't debate because he knows the real question is, 'Can we afford four more years of this...
...friends, in an attempt to convince New Yorkers that her experience as New York City's commissioner of consumer affairs from 1969 to 1974 qualified her for the Senate. But Holtzman raised $1.2 million, mostly from small contributions from 35,000 people, and staged a last-minute TV blitz of her own (built around her campaign theme: "You know what she's done in the House; think what she could do in the Senate"). She also put together an organization of 5,000 volunteers...