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...friends." Agreed Mondale: "I think we respect each other. I said during the campaign if we could just get two good nights' sleep I think that would become obvious. I've had my two nights' sleep. " In a wry reference to George Bush's famous crack in 1980 that his then rival Ronald Reagan believed in "voodoo economics," Hart pointed out that "neither of us accused the other of witchcraft...
...canceled vacations for his 6,900 officers, who will work up to 72 hours a week protecting the Villages, policing the streets and working inside the arenas. He has spent $800,000 on new equipment, including submachine guns with silencers and shoulder-held rifles for the department's crack SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team. One new acquisition: "Felix," a radio-directed robot capable of chugging up to suspicious objects and investigating them at a safe distance from people...
Democrats were understandably skeptical about Reagan's transformation. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Reagan has built a wall around them and thrown brickbats. Now he wants to reach through a crack in the wall and extend the hand of fellowship." Reagan's likely Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, has long pledged to make unconditional talks with Kremlin leaders his first priority after Inauguration Day. He derided Reagan's motives: "I intend to be a President who will lead us toward a safer world from the first day I'm in office, and not from...
...died of cancer, his daughter vowed to make the pilgrimage on his behalf. "I'm going there, Dad," she wrote in the letter Reagan read, "and I'll I see the beaches and the barricades and the monuments." As the President read, his voice began to crack. "I'll see the graves, and I'll put flowers there just like you wanted to do. I'll never forget what you went through, Dad, nor will I let anyone else forget. And, Dad, I'll, always be proud...
Manhattan, 1921. A lovely, dark-haired girl, just approaching her teens, dances alone to the torpid ecstasy of a phonograph record in the back room of a Lower East Side tavern. Through a crack in the wall, a boy about the same age watches, transfixed. The dance over, Deborah (Jennifer Connelly) turns her back to the boy and slips out of her white chiffon dress, displaying herself in a vision that the young Noodles Aaronson will carry throughout his long, violent life. This is the first scene of the Ladd Co.'s Once upon a Time in America...