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...Mario Cuomo vs. Howard Baker in the presidential finals? When one of Cuomo's advisers, after watching an impressive Baker performance on a talk show, mused about what might be called the "turn-to" factor, the Governor laughed it off. Conventional wisdom, well versed in the lessons of past wars, says that fantasies about brokered conventions or late-starting saviors are merely that, fantasies. Yet a few contrarians, surveying the fractured and vulnerable fields shaping up in both parties, believe a 1988 nomination may yet go to a heavyweight unsullied by the early combat. Says Eddie Mahe, a Republican consultant...
...will launch a national candidacy in time for the Southern round of primaries on March 8. This could succeed, Strauss speculates, because the earliest contests might yield a "dog's dinner result" -- a lot of scraps and leftovers -- for the present pack. If so, a Nunn or a Cuomo could defy conventional wisdom by waiting until after that round to leap...
...captured 40% of the delegates chosen up to that point. "Everyone in the race will be out of money," Mahe predicts, "fatigued, with fatigued staffs, fatigued messages." So there could be an opening for a classy contender -- Howard Baker or (if Bush collapses) James Baker on the Republican side, Cuomo or someone like New Jersey's Senator Bill Bradley on the Democratic side -- to ride in from the sidelines on a fresh white horse. The most fanciful scenario of all has the Democrats packing for Atlanta or the Republicans for New Orleans lacking a contender who commands close...
...Mario Cuomo, who went to the site of the accident, promised a thorough investigation of the bridge collapse...
...lost lives here, and we ought to find out why," Cuomo said...