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...would take (or be offered) the No. 2 spot. His aides said it was unlikely he would submit to an interview process that smacked of supplication, but they were split on whether he ought to join the ticket if asked. Advisers Patrick Caddell, Kathy Bushkin and John McEvoy contend that Hart's future would best be served by becoming Mondale's partner in their party's challenge to Ronald Reagan, even if the effort fails. Oliver Henkel, Frank Mankiewicz and Jack Quinn still foresee the possibility that a political disaster could cripple Mon dale before the convention...
...opponents of Simpson-Mazzoli, however, have been unable to offer any convincing alternative. Some contend that tighter enforcement of wage-and-hour laws in the U.S. and beefing up the INS border patrols could slow the tide of aliens. That seems unlikely; Cornelius, for one, believes that only "fullscale militarization" of the U.S.-Mexican border, a step that nobody advocates, could do the job. Others contend the real solution would be to build up the Mexican economy so that it could offer good jobs to those now crossing the border. But that is wishful thinking: American voters...
Some analysts contend that Mondale would have knocked out Hart midway in the primary season if Jackson had not been pulling a large black vote, which is seen as more liberal and less favorable to Hart. Others argue that Jackson created a following of his own that would not have voted at all without his candidacy. In general, Mondale's aides claim, Hart was merely a receptacle for anti-Mondale votes and had no real constituency to take into the general election. The Hart rebuttal is that Mondale's traditional party support is too limited and that in a fight...
...unlike Presidents Kennedy and Nixon when they visited the Old Sod, Reagan had to contend with demonstrators who also had an acute sense of what would play on American TV. On Saturday, shortly before Reagan received an honorary doctor of laws degree at University College of the National University of Ireland, 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters attended a rival "deconferring ceremony" at which Marian Robinson, a visiting American professor who happens to be a cousin of Nancy Reagan's, read a citation denouncing the President's nuclear arms policies; three holders of honorary doctorates returned their...
...statistics only describe the surface of the story for many of the '69 classmates, the stereotypical version of the campus radical turned wealthy professional is clearly off the mark. While most of them have forsaken the counterculture, many members of the class contend that what motivated their activism in the 60s continues to shape the ways that they have decided to provide for families and stability. For some, like Ross C. Owens '69, the events of '69 were a brief prelude to a longer period of activism. Owens entered and dropped out of divinity school after Harvard...