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...show as the first-ever confrontation on the same stage between candidates of the two major parties, whetting appetites over the prospect that the candidates would be questioning each other. Did this mean there would be a Tuesday Night Main Event of Robertson vs. Jackson, with Dukakis vs. DuPont, Simon vs. Dole and Gephardt vs. Bush on the undercard...
...Simon said. "It makes so much sense."--Gephardt and the Duke on how we can prevent the NSC from running amok in the future--"Well, it begins with the fellow in the Oval Office," the Massachusetts governor said. "I've been a chief executive for nine years and..."--and DuPont and Haig on what to do when the Soviets cheat on treaties--"That's a good question, Pete, and let me add a few more Soviet treaty violations you forgot to mention." Ho-hum. Can I buy an idea...
UPSTARTS SIMON and DuPont didn't fare much better. Simon looked and sounded sickly and got skewered all night for his promise-them-everything-including-a-balanced-budge t program. Reaganomics with a bow-tie, Gephardt said. And DuPont, fresh from an endorsement by the wacky but influential Manchester Union-Leader, is the only guy more annoying to listen to than Bruce Babbitt. When he speaks, the preppified former Delaware governor and Napalm-heir sounds like a Kennedy gargling mouthwash...
...financial managers to sell the stocks, worth 6.4 percent of Wheaton's endowment, and reinvest the money so that the school does not suffer a net loss in its portfolio, said Vice President of Finance and Operations Donald Scott. For sale are stocks in seven or eight companies, including DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, ControlData, and Tenneco, Scott said...
Republican Presidential Candidate Pete DuPont felt the political undercurrents of AIDS while addressing the Council for National Policy, a somewhat secretive club of New Right activists and contributors, at the Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Fla., last month. A teenager in the audience drew a standing ovation when he asked the former Delaware Governor whether he agreed that AIDS was a sign from God that homosexuality is an "abomination." When DuPont replied that AIDS was a "medical problem, not a moral problem," he was booed. Said an activist in the audience: "DuPont blew...