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Mondale will make a last foray into California and Texas this week, but some Lone Star Democrats are already complaining bitterly that the Mondale campaign is using money originally targeted for a get-out-the-vote effort in Texas to retire his heavy debt left over from the primaries. "That means," says one Texas political consultant who is an avid Mondale supporter, "that the Mondale leadership has thrown in the towel...
...differ greatly from those before the first debate. Each candidate spent part of the week trying out his best lines on campaign audiences and sharpening his summaries of complex foreign policy questions. Reagan fielded some generally soft questions from high school and college students on a two-day foray into the South and Midwest, and his answers grew tighter and more effective as the trip progressed. Mondale had been working with three foreign policy experts, and they accompanied him on a Western swing on Monday, grilling him with possible debate questions during a three-hour flight between St. Louis...
TIME'S Jon Lee Anderson recently joined a squad of 20 Miskito rebels on a foray by boat that ended some 80 miles inside Nicaraguan territory; the guerrillas eventually camped in a mangrove swamp near a Miskito settlement south of the coastal town of Puerto Cabezas. At dusk, several of the rebels approached the village. The residents were friendly: women prepared food for the guerrillas, while a young instructor at a local Sandinista center for popular education complained about the pressures for political conformity from the revolutionary regime. Commented Leonard Zuñiga, 46, the Miskito rebel commander...
...Schell himself notes advances in the realm of the political and in the realm of the theoretical are mutually beneficial. Each new foray into an imagined world where we do not live our lives knowing we could extinguished like a cigarette butt makes real change more acceptable and more possible. And even Schell, with his inconsistent rhetoric, is bringing the discussion of a non-nuclear world from the political fringes to the forefront of political dialogue...
...Honduras, claims 8,000 troops. Although able to move freely over thousands of square miles of northern Nicaragua, the contras are worried that their operations will be restricted if U.S. aid is cut off. Correspondent Ricardo Chavira and Photographer Bob Nickelsberg accompanied an F.D.N. patrol on a six-day foray that took them some 30 miles into the desolate hills of Nicaragua's Nueva Segovia department. Chavira's report...