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...cement-jawed superhero does battle against an evil imperial foe and uses wit, grit and brute force to win the day and make people feel good about their country. This fantasy of an all-righteous America fills movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half...
...American President, no matter how popular, can totally control his agenda. At the outset of Reagan's first term, he dazzled friend and foe alike with his mastery of Congress. Willing to try Reagan's supply-side economics, Congress approved his $750 billion, five-year tax cut, which included $150 billion in cuts requested by special-interest groups...
Before yesterday's game, the Crimson was ranked fifth in the region, and the impressive win over a New England foe could only help...
...atmosphere in the two camps was markedly different. Once again, Reagan was tested by David Stockman, the Office of Management and Budget Director, who played Mondale with a keen oratorical resemblance to the real foe. Before the last debate, Stockman had adopted two roles, one feisty Fritz, the other calm and mild. This time Stockman synthesized the two types on what turned out to be the correct assumption that Mondale would again be firm...
...Select Committee on Intelligence: "The targets of Soviet interception of telephone communications now include our businesses, our banks, our brokerage houses, as frequently as our Government agencies . . . Private communications of all sorts have been violated, and on a scale that dwarfs any previous surveillance effort by friend or foe...