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...want to get held up with who said what about whom and who's pointing the finger at whom." Horner says, adding that any further delays will result more from caution than foot-dragging on the part of Radcliffe...
Unfortunately, though probably inevitably, the campaign has developed little in the way of reasoned debate on how to deal with these woes. Instead, it has turned into an exercise in finger pointing. Democrats blame the recession on Ronald Reagan. He retorts that it is the inevitable consequence of years of Democratic tax-and-spend policies that he is slowly correcting. "I didn't cause this recession," Reagan last week told a rally of several thousand Republicans in economically distressed Peoria...
...Maxwell Finger New York City...
...Angeles Times in August on who or what might be responsible for the recession chose as the No. 1 villain foreign oil prices, followed by Japanese competition and Congress. More people blamed Jimmy Carter (No. 8 on the blameworthy list) than Reagan (No. 9), and more pointed a finger at the Democratic Party (No. 7) than at the Republican Party (No. 10). On the other hand, White House aides are baffled by polls showing that voters approve Reagan's policies of cutting Government spending, fighting inflation and lowering taxes, but that they still intend to vote for Democratic congressional...
...principles, and not get bogged down in square meters or other details. One of the principles that could not be ignored was the phrase "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." He said this was the essence of the question. He leaned forward in his chair, pointed his finger at Begin, and exclaimed, "Premier Begin, you want land...