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WHEN WATERGATE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR Archibald Cox was fired 10 years ago last week, he didn't know that the last head to roll so unceremoniously at the whim of a U.S. President was Salvador Allende's only months before. While Cox's booting was a boon to his career. Allende, the Chilean leader murdered in a CIA-backed military coup, was not so lucky. That abuse of presidential power, like Cox's firing, was discovered only in its wake. Sometimes that's too late...
Reduced energy prices have also been a boon to U.S. automakers. Without continued pressure to hold down gasoline costs, Americans have been resuming their love affair with big cars. Sales of option-loaded large and luxury autos jumped 26%, to 1.79 million vehicles, in the 1983 model year that ended last month. Mid-size autos like the Chrysler Le Baron and Pontiac Phoenix were up 20%. Such results delight Detroit, because full-and mid-size cars are the most profitable. Meanwhile, sales of U.S.-made small cars totaled 3.23 million during the recent model year, up just...
Sorensen predicted that the added importance of television coverage would probably help Hart's chances of heating the Democratic frontrunners. He explained that TV has generally been a boon to dark horse candidates citing McGovern's upset of then Sen Edmand Muskie (D-Mc) in the 1972 primaries and Jimmy Carter's emergence from obscurity...
...does he view Hart's former association with McGovern as a problem.Rather, Sorensen claimed, McGovern's entrance into the field is a boon for the Hart campaign, because it proves that Hart "is not simply a McGovern stand-in, that...
...immediate response to the Soviet's brutal deed was mild: the usual harsh rhetoric coupled with some minor restrictions on cultural and diplomatic exchange. But despite the President's reaffirmation of his commitment to arms control, it is clear that this latest East-West crisis has been a boon to Reagan, slowing the nuclear freeze movement and weakening the Democrats' resolve to criticize the Administration's performance in Geneva. And it will give the Defense Department's desire for dollars--and the MX missile system--added credibility in Congress. Said one White House official: "We've been saying all along...