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...Minnesota Fritz." Mondale's schedule is mapped out by the headquarters in Atlanta and his jet-known as the "Minnesota Fritz"-is in constant communication with Carter's "Peanut One." Even so, Mondale, as he emphasized in the debate, is free to differ with Carter on key issues. A case in point occurred in September when the Georgian criticized the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren for going "too far" in protecting the accused-an attempt by Carter to woo Middle America. Mondale, a former attorney general of Minnesota, promptly praised the Warren Court for guarding...
Even though the candidates were concerned with scoring debating points, last week's confrontation at least gave the broad outline of an answer to the question that was uppermost in most viewers' minds: How would a Carter Administration's foreign policy differ from Ford's? The answer seemed to be that, aside from some changes in nuance and emphasis-for example, Carter would probably give a higher priority to strengthening relations with traditional allies-U.S. foreign policy would be basically unchanged. Such crucial factors as judgment, temper, coolness under pressure could, of course, only...
Despite Ford's gaffe and Carter's extensive talk about the need for "morality" in U.S. foreign policy (a concern with which pragmatic Europeans have little patience) the race is widely viewed as a personality contest between two competent, but certainly not dazzling, politicians who scarcely differ in their approach to key issues. Most Western and Japanese political leaders are softly cheering for Ford. His main attraction: being a known quantity, v. the relatively unknown Jimmy Carter. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt makes it a point to note privately that Ford has "grown" into the presidency...
...from pixie to pedagogue and back within a 60-second monologue, he comes across more like a ripe character actor in search of his next role. The contrast is appropriate because rarely do voters get a chance to choose between candidates for the Senate-or any other office-who differ so clearly in persona and policy as New York Senator James Buckley and his Democratic challenger, Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...only trouble was that the parties involved-the white Rhodesians, the black Rhodesians, the five "frontline" Presidents of Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana and Angola-had sharply differing ideas of what the conference was supposed to accomplish. "Rowlands and Schaufele seemed to be trying not to offend or differ with anyone," said a Western diplomat in Tanzania. "Their idea seems to be to get a conference going, and then hope that things will work out simply because everyone is in one room...