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Mondale owes some of his lead to the failings of his rivals. Most disappointing has been John Glenn, the astronaut turned Senator. His hero status and centrist politics made him a logical match for Ronald Reagan. But the more Glenn hit the stump, the further he fell in the polls. He comes off as a good, gray technocrat, offering facts, not vision, often lapsing into jargon and digressions that leave audiences drowsy. He can show zest, though, sometimes speaking clearly and substantively on favorite issues, such as arms control and cutting the budget deficit. Since his positions are closer...
...trees are beribboned with the red-white-and-blue emblems of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance, known by its Spanish acronym of ARENA. Sidewalk intersections are spray-painted with the green fish symbol of ARENA'S chief rival in the eight-party presidential race, the centrist Christian Democrats led by Jose Napoleon Duarte. On El Salvador's four television channels, political advertisements exhort voters to choose the man among the many who can save the country...
...recently as last summer, the John Glenn presidential campaign brimmed with promise. The Democratic Senator from Ohio, a solid political centrist and space-age hero, would provide voters with a comfortable choice between the right (President Reagan) and the left (Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale). But the high hopes are fading. "Within the past three months," says Mississippi Democratic Chairman Danny Cupit, "Glenn sort of disappeared from the face of the earth...
Among the contentious questions dividing U.S. policymakers is how best to stop El Salvador's escuadrones de la muerte-death squads. The victims are supposedly "subversives," but they include union leaders, liberal professors and centrist politicians. Bush was in El Salvador for just seven hours, but his warnings about "these right-wing fanatics" were stark and powerful. "Your cause is being undermined by the murderous violence of reactionary minorities," he said to an assembly of the country's politicians and military men, "[which] poisons the well of friendship between our countries. [Do not] make the mistake of thinking...
Glenn's strategy has been to portray himself as an independent, forward-thinking centrist and paint Mondale as an oldfashioned, big-spending liberal who cannot say no to special-interest groups. But the voters, Democrats included, still find Glenn and Mondale almost indistinguishable politically, except that Mondale is seen as the more experienced leader (37% to 16%). The two rate about the same in "avoiding giving in to pressure from special-interest groups" and "going for the right solutions and not sticking to party positions." Neither is given high marks for "bringing new and fresh solutions...