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...unsettled issues, the Administration's policy in Central America is most controversial. Yet Duarte managed to make military aid to El Salvador a cinch. "We couldn't have done it without Duarte," said an Administration official. In eleven hours one day, the President-elect had eight back-to-back meetings with congressional committees and caucuses. "I need your help," he pleaded. "Don't leave me standing alone." Duarte, the first freely elected President in half a century, means to lead a country enduring a hellish civil war, where the ruling class has been particularly resistant to social...
...special horse. "Devil's Bag just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled old Woody said with the brave gleam of all winning trainers, "I thought he was a cinch, anyway." A son of 1977 Triple Crown Champion Seattle Slew, Swale favors that great dark...
Nonetheless, not one of Reagan's advisers regards the race as a cinch. They remember uneasily that in January 1980 Jimmy Carter held a 29-point lead over Reagan in the Gallup poll. Most Reaganites expect the campaign to turn close by the time the nation casts its ballots...
...neat flash of wit in her final song: "In the world's eye/ We were Laurel and Hardy/ In our minds/ We were Heathcliff and Cathy." But hagiography, even half comic, like this, should be resisted. Sentiment might make that hard. But Milk and Honey makes it a cinch. -By Jay Cocks
...knew the match wouldn't be a lead pipe cinch, but we're not giving it back." said Penn Coach Dave Micahmik of the victory...