Word: cuomo
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...months most of the scraps from the election will be left to trivial pursuers. Who said "Where's the beef?" How old is Gary Hartpence? Certain things will not be so readily forgotten: Mario Cuomo's keynote address at the Democratic Convention at one extreme, and George Bush's gee-whillikerisms at the other. The television debates-strangely useless and useful-will await their playbacks in 1988. Two forces in American politics certainly will not go away: women and blacks. Two issues, abortion and church and state, will not go away either. It should be interesting...
Americans tend to cherish the idea that a presidential campaign should be a dramatic examination of the nation's values and goals. Some such differentiation did occur, especially at the two conventions. In San Francisco, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson elaborated the Mondale theme of Democratic inclusiveness and Government as the agent of progress. In Dallas, the Republicans ridiculed that as a negative, weakling vision. To them, the private sector is America's genius...
...Reagan often uses the "shining city" line to describe America as a land of security and success. At the Democratic Convention. New York Governor Mario Cuomo bitingly remarked that a shining city may be what Reagan sees "from the veranda of his ranch" but that he fails to see despair in the slums...
...inevitable and imminent." They also attacked the religious right for supposedly believing "that reconciliation with America's adversaries is ultimately futile." The statement was orchestrated by the Christie Institute, a liberal research and action agency, which drew on some enterprising research by Journalists Ronnie Dugger and Joe Cuomo that cited eleven public and private utterances by Reagan on the possible imminence of Armageddon...
That evening Quarles, who lives in a dilapidated apartment building one block from the Governor, went back to the mansion and surrendered. He told police that he had originally intended to break into the house, awaken Cuomo and ask to be reinstated in his $7,500-a-year state job as a janitor, which he had lost in 1981 because of absenteeism. Once inside, Quarles became frightened and decided instead to take the loot. He said he planned to return the items a few days later in the hope that the grateful Governor would reward him with a job. Cuomo...