Word: doled
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Back in the pack, Robert Dole, Phil Crane and John Anderson may draw more votes than expected because of their performances in the debate. Anderson stood out by forthrightly telling people things they do not want to hear: the grain embargo was justified, gas should be taxed 50? a gal. Yet Anderson has hardly bothered to campaign in Iowa. "The caucuses don't mean anything," he says. "It is New Hampshire that counts." And that is where he spent last week. But all the other presidential hopefuls would not trade snowbound Iowa for a South Seas paradise until...
Howard Baker declared: "We will not be able to avoid future Irans until the U.S. re-establishes the fact that it protects its vital interests by whatever means necessary. I would tell the Russians that the time is over when we will tolerate adventuristic Russian foreign policy." Bob Dole assailed Carter's lack of decisive action in Iran, and claimed that the President bears a "heavy responsibility" for the seizure of the U.S. embassy...
...that they build sympathy for the man in the White House. Additionally, the public was aware that none of the candidates had put forth a constructive plan of his own for handling either the Iran or Afghanistan crisis. These concerns were certainly on the minds of Connally, Baker, Bush, Dole, Philip Crane and John Anderson when they debated with one another last Saturday in Des Moines. (Reagan did not take part, claiming that, as an act of faith, he did not like to criticize fellow Republicans...
...executive editor of the Des Moines Register, calls Anderson a "silver-haired orator with a golden tongue, a 17-jewel mind and a brass backbone." Respected on Capitol Hill for his courage, he was one of the first Republicans to call for the resignation of Richard Nixon. Senator Robert Dole, a long-shot rival for the G.O.P. nomination himself, says flatly: "Anderson is the brightest man running for President...