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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Republican Front Runner Reagan risked the irritation of his supporters and the concerted challenge from such early entries as Connally and George Bush by delaying all serious campaigning. But now he too must enter the action. Says Reagan Campaign Manager John Sears: "Politics is motion and excitement. We must now run harder than if we were behind. Our biggest opponent is us. If we do our job right, nobody can catch...
Reagan still claims the loyalty of about one-third of his party in state after state. The large number of Republican candidates (nine) challenging him tends to split the anti-Reagan vote and thus strengthen the front runner. Reagan, however, carries some weighty burdens. He is 68 years old. If he wins, he will be the oldest President ever elected in U.S. history. Perhaps more important, the theatrics of American politics tends to make any three-time candidate seem shopworn...
...scene. "There are animals crashing around in the forest," he once remarked. "I can hear them, but I can't see them." Though some critics grumbled that he was too friendly with the Nixon White House early in the hearings, he emerged as a national figure and a front runner for Vice President on the 1976 Republican ticket. But Gerald Ford chose Senator Robert Dole, much to Baker's disappointment. Rumor had it that Baker was rejected at least in part because of the alcohol problems of his wife Joy, who had stopped drinking six months earlier...
Then a dozen whites leaped out of the van and began firing pistols, shotguns and at least one automatic rifle at the demonstrators. Said Bermanzohn's wife Sally: "I saw a man in the right front seat of the lead car. He had a pistol. We shouted, 'He's got a gun!' Then I heard the firing start." Said Truck Driver Jeff Rackley: "It was just like a war movie, with everybody shooting all over the place and people screaming. I saw two people go down, a man and a woman." Added Photographer Don Davis...
...military and economic aid. The North Vietnamese, meanwhile, never gave up their dream of taking all of Indochina. In early 1978 Hanoi used the excuse of some Khmer Rouge raids on Vietnamese border villages to invade Cambodia. Ostensibly, the Vietnamese soldiers involved were "volunteers" assisting a "National Salvation Front" headed by Heng Samrin and other obscure Khmer Rouge defectors. Last Christmas the Vietnamese and Heng Samrin's Cambodians launched a major assault on provincial capitals. On Jan. 7, Pol Pot and his surviving cadres abandoned the capital and fled to a Khmer Rouge mountain hideout...