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...tempted to believe that the four conservative Southerners--Sen. Fritz Hollings (D.S.C), former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, probably Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), and perhaps former National Party Chairman Robert Straus of Texas--have entered the fray partly out of the much heralded "turn to the right" the country experienced in 1980. Indeed, early press reports indicated that Sen. Hollings based the rationale for his campaign in part on those halcyonyon pre recession days of 1981, when Time referred to Reagan as a domestically able President," and a Democratic candidacy as a conservative alternative to Ronald Reagan seemed credible...
...Chicago. Washington's opponent, former State Legislator Bernard Epton, 61, received only 12,000 votes in last week's uncontested Republican primary. But now, with the possibility of Democratic white flight to the Epton camp, the Republican Party is dispatching some of its bigger guns to the fray. James Fletcher, who engineered Illinois Governor James Thompson's first gubernatorial victory, has signed on with the Epton campaign. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is scheduled to speak this week on Epton's behalf at a $200-a-plate fund-raising dinner. Epton...
...back business, Avis began in September to give away travel bags and "certificates" that could be accumulated for bigger prizes. Customers who rented five times, for example, could choose a garment bag, a microcassette recorder or a travel clock radio. Within a month, Avis' competitors started entering the fray. National offered watches and stereo radios with headphones. Budget retaliated with a full line of luggage...
...Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac told supporters, who had gathered in a drab, working-class district of the capital, that the Socialists and Communists were "consummate artists when it comes to lying." Former Premier Raymond Barre blasted the government for the "cacophony" of its contradictory policies. Mitterrand remained above the fray, but Socialist First Secretary Lionel Jospin and Communist Boss Georges Marchais tried to drum up the loyal leftist vote in the suburban industrial "Red belt" around Paris. Marchais told a rally in Communist-controlled Villejuif, "The right is dangerous! We must throw all our forces into battle...
...just when we think we cannot take another step, the guitar plays a final cadence, and the music stops. Dancers alternately cheer and slump to the floor, warriors spent by the victory in the fray...