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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale indeed has weathered ten debates in the past six months, while Reagan has not debated anyone in four years. But Mondale must avoid the fate of his former running mate, Jimmy Carter. In 1980 Carter scored more substantive points than Reagan, but the former actor won the debate on tone and style-and the election shortly thereafter. Mondale, though warm and funny in private, is stiff on television; while Reagan grins easily and naturally, Mondale sometimes bares his teeth like the runner-up in a beauty contest...
...Barber: "There is no clear evidence that the Vice President pulls much in the election except as a piece of the presidential candidate's image." Indeed, the importance of the No. 2 nominee may rest in how and why he or she was selected. Notes Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's chief strategist: "It is the first time people get to see the candidate make a substantive decision...
...pipeline to the guerrillas, initiated by the Carter Administration, was stepped up by Casey soon after President Reagan's election. The new director wasted no time in ordering his station chiefs in Europe to look for Afghan exiles who might make good recruits. The CIA men began by poring over lists of students and teachers, compiling dossiers on likely candidates and placing them under surveillance. Those who seemed thoroughly reliable and unquestionably pro-mujahedin received casual invitations to lunch from a visiting American professor, or a priest, perhaps, or even a Saudi businessman. All were undercover CIA agents. While...
...cannot make up their minds, people will automatically be assigned one of them, probably A T & T. These developments are an outgrowth of the Jan. 1 breakup of the Bell System, and of dozens of regulatory and technical changes in American telecommunications during the past 15 years. Says Edward Carter, marketing vice president of MCI: "For American consumers, it is the most significant change in a day-to-day necessity they've ever seen...
Says MCI's Carter: "We're going to give long distance an image. Having specials, packaging it, promoting it. We're going to give long distance a brand name...