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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michigan Republicans decided to stage the earliest selection process of any this year, beating out even Iowa. They returned to a kooky, multitiered convention system starting 27 months before the general election. As the regulars slept, conservative supporters of Pat Robertson and Jack Kemp took over the party apparatus. When George Bush's partisans woke up, a series of bruising lawsuits followed. After last week's debacle, the result may be a contested delegation. Says Field Reichardt, a moderate who helped draft the Michigan plan: "We should never have done this. In the short run, it's causing our party...
...were, he would have taken one of his earliest television offers and become the original bartending coach on Cheers. If he were, he would be the mountainous John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (rather, make that Trains and Buses but No Planes), alternately waving his arms and shrugging...
Though Gorbachev was trained as a lawyer, he has never practiced; his main interest from his earliest days at Moscow State University was politics. Even before leaving Privolnoye, he had joined the Komsomol, the youth league that people ages 14 to 28 pass through in preparation for joining the Communist Party. Armed with a glowing recommendation from the Stavropol committee, he became a Komsomol organizer at the Moscow State University law school in 1952 and simultaneously, at 21, a member of the party proper. He was assigned to a working-class area of Moscow for propaganda activity and the handling...
Some of Hart's rivals joined the chorus once they discovered that this lone crusader was a relatively safe target. The best and earliest lines belonged to Babbitt. "I think everybody is entitled to a comeback try," he cracked. "But in Gary's case, I don't know if the comparison is to Sugar Ray Leonard or Jim and Tammy Bakker. If this weren't so serious, it would be funny. If it weren't so funny, it would be serious...
...Simon said that his economic message wasone that plays well with the voters in Iowa andNew Hampshire, the earliest hurdles in the 1988presidential race. "You are tested in a smallstate where people really get to know you," hesaid