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...near-total contrast to his foe, the urbane Brock, 45, is a reserved, colorless campaigner, a politician who often seems ill at ease at his own rallies. He owes his past victories (four House races and his 1970 conquest of Senator Albert Gore) to his superb organizational skills, on which his hopes for re-election also rest. Brock's conservatism goes down well in Tennessee; he has 15,000 volunteers at work, and he will probably spend more than $1 million by Nov. 2, compared with $500,000 by Sasser. But Tennesseans traditionally cotton more to the down...
While far from alone in opposing abortion, the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. is its most visible and vocal foe-and Carter has been one of the bishops' targets. Acting on the advice of Senator Walter Mondale, Carter sought the meeting with the bishops in an effort to effect a ceasefire. Ever since his victory last January in the Iowa caucuses, he has drawn criticism from right-to-life groups for his refusal to support a constitutional amendment on abortion. These attacks intensified after the Democratic Party adopted a campaign platform that openly rejected amendment attempts to overturn...
Shaka also developed a battle tactic based on the shape of a buffalo's head. Stamping their feet, beating on their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe. Then the main unit-the head-would sweep forward so that the Zulus could use their assegais in close combat. During the twelve years before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, Shaka built a Zulu empire that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained some...
After his speech, Ford motioned to his vanquished foe in the guest galleries to join him and Betty on the podium. When Reagan and Nancy had entered the hall earlier to a resounding ovation, there were rhythmic cries of "Speech! Speech! Speech!" Invited to the podium by Chairman Rhodes, Reagan initially declined. "This is someone else's night," he said to friends. But now he responded to Ford's beckoning. As he moved through the packed arena with Nancy, then took the microphone at Ford's bidding, the eyes of many delegates shimmered with tears...
...that its intervention in Lebanon was not aimed at Israel, Jerusalem relaxed and began to enjoy the situation. Israeli officials now quietly applaud Syrian President Hafez Assad's aims in Lebanon as modest and constructive; a year ago he was routinely described in Israel as a fanatical foe...