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After New Hampshire, the Democratic contest remains a tangled wrangle. The current consensus of party professionals is that no candidate is likely to win a delegate majority before the primary and caucus season ends in June. But that does not necessarily mean a modern-day version of a brokered convention, where a cabal of Democratic leaders finally gather under NO SMOKING signs to award the nomination to Mario Cuomo...
Dole should poll well in this week's South Dakota primary and Minnesota caucuses if his Midwestern "one of us" theme plays as well as it did in Iowa. But last week Bush halted his efforts in the South Dakota contest, making any Dole victory there somewhat hollow. The caucus format in Minnesota favors the highly motivated, so the Robertson forces may make a strong showing there...
...answer their charges." (In fact, the attacks were not so much untrue as they were cheap: Dole has indeed waffled about whether some new revenues might be necessary to tackle the deficit issue. But so at times has Bush.) Behind the scenes, Dole accused his minions of losing the contest for him. "When things go wrong," said an aide, "Dole's not the type to blame himself." At week's end the Dole staff appeared to be coming unglued. Amid all the angry finger pointing, the Senator's aides seemed unable to come up with a revamped strategy for their...
Advice from the sidelines. As the contest between Bush and Dole turned nasty, Mario Cuomo told Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk: "Tell your candidates to go out on the stage and stand there holding hands and humming The Star-Spangled Banner. Hum it -- don't sing it, because then they would have to open their lips...
While the men's contest of wills remained undecided until the last score flashed, the outcome of the pairs competition was all but foreordained. The incandescent young Soviet couple, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, secured a healthy lead during the short program, then skated away from the pack with a seemingly flawless performance in the longer freestyle event. The Soviets, who have claimed every Olympic pairs gold medal since 1964, also placed second and fourth. The top U.S. pair, Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard, survived an awkward spill early in the long program to capture the bronze and win America...