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Enter the rejuvenated Democratic party, under the leadership of Paul Tsongas and Co. To take advantage of the GOP's blunders, Tsongas insists his colleagues must present "a basket of ideas that will compel people to vote Democratic. You cannot, in essence, say, 'Look we did all these things back in the 1960s and 1930s,' or 'We're nicer people.' That overbrimming basket does not exist yet, Tsongas says, but by 1984 he believes the likes of Massachusetts elder statesman Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 will move away from the failed "New Deal approach" and join the ranks...
Presidential debates compel both men to gloss over their miscalculations, exaggerate their strengths, try to lure the other one into error, in order to emerge in the eyes of the public at large as a "winner." All of these objectives so coveted in television performances are the opposite of the qualities so vital to Executive deliberation and diplomatic negotiation...
...That here and now, at this time and in this city, we stand committed to bring fulfillment to a dream that must compel us all: "When all God's children, black people and white people, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants will be able to join hands and sing...'Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty we are free at last!!!' "Free! right here in Boston. Free! from violence. Free! from hatred. Free! from fear of one another, Free! to live together. Free! to learn together. Free! to build together. Free! to celebrate together. Free! to pray...
Though the debate might be too much too late, the unique campaign pressures of 1980 seemed to compel the candidates to accept the invitation, offered by the League of Women Voters, to meet in a showdown session, tentatively set for Oct. 28 in Cleveland. Only one other possible event could be as pivotal to the election outcome as the TV clash: a deal between the U.S. and Iran that would bring the American hostages home before Election Day, presumably to Carter's great credit. Last week Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i raised that possibility...
...were bursting out: at the Stalowa Wola steel mill about 50 miles south of Lublin, among transport workers in Chelm 40 miles to the east, among newspaper deliverymen in Warsaw, at an agricultural machinery plant in Wroclaw. The strikes came in the midst of an economic crisis that could compel the regime to impose further austerity. If it does, there are few signs that the people will go along...