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...course, is his selection of a running mate. His choice will indicate where he intends to lead the party that has now put him in charge. Picking a relative moderate like George Bush with close ties to the Eastern Establishment would give a clear signal that he wants to broaden the G.O.P. base as much as possible. A compromise selection like Indiana Senator Richard Lugar would indicate a certain caution. Choosing an old friend like Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt would show that he plans to run a far more narrowly based campaign?with all the risks that implies in November...
...Sears' place as campaign director this year, and George Shultz, a former Treasury Secretary. Other possibilities: Senator Paul Laxalt, campaign chairman, and former Nixon Aides Alexander Haig and Donald Rumsfeld. Sears urged Reagan to keep open the option of naming Henry Kissinger before the election in order to broaden his support. "Kissinger is quite an asset in terms of the credibility he maintains," says Sears. "He could be a great help to anyone who happened to be the Republican nominee." But Sears was fired in February, partly because his toying with such ideas offended Reagan's hard-core...
...collar workers and well-educated suburbanites who worry about whales, pollution and consumerism. He will be heavily tempted to turn to left-liberal groups who supply eager donors and doorbell ringers, but that could stamp his campaign with an elitist label that could be fatal. Anderson knows he must broaden his appeal to blacks, blue-collar workers, white ethnic groups, but is only now mulling over how to do so. His national unity theme, seeking to win votes from Democrats, Republicans and independents, has landed him in a chicken-and-egg situation. To broaden his appeal, he needs a respected...
...their part, the allies must try to broaden their limiting regional perspective and recognize that their first line of defense may no longer be in their backyard. They would be protecting themselves by joining the U.S. to stop Soviet threats to Southwest Asia and other strategically important regions. The European Community should streamline its cumbersome system of consulting so that it can more quickly respond to U.S. initiatives and to international challenges. Together the U.S. and its partners should do some contingency planning for Third World crises. Says Bertram: "If the crisis had been over Berlin and not Afghanistan...
...World governments are unwilling to make, Marglin explains, saying not only does the implementation of these policies require the repression of civil liberties, but also the crushing of any free or independent labor movement there. Marglin lists one more reason for the unsuitabiltiy of Harberger: HIID recently attempted to broaden its conception of development by hiring an anthropologist and a sociologist. Harberger, he believes, would endanger an attempt to broaden the types of analysis at HIID which is "just beginning and, at the moment, is very fragile...