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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beliefs distracted Mondale and Ferraro from their planned campaign strategies. The two Democratic running mates were almost unable to focus attention on the many issues they want to employ against Reagan in their long-shot battle to wipe out the President's commanding lead in popular support. The furor sublimated Mondale's long-awaited unveiling of his plan to slash the huge federal deficit by two-thirds within four years (see following story). The only hope for the Democrats in the reli gious controversy was that a backlash might grow against the intrusion of the bishops, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pressing the Abortion Issue | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...probe, once the conservative Washington Legal Foundation had formally challenged Ferraro's right to the exemption. Its investigation, which probably will not be completed before Congress adjourns Oct. 4, does not necessarily mean Ferraro did anything wrong. But it is at least a jarring reminder of the furor that bogged down the Democratic campaign so badly in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serving Up a Bitter Pill | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...political jeopardy was not anything she did but something she said she would not do-namely, release her husband's tax returns. It was this affront to post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing, that turned the flap into a furor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Pietygate: School for Scandal | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...Prime Minister's hand in the six of India's 22 states that Congress (I) did not control. Only six weeks before Rama Rao's fall in Andhra Pradesh, Gandhi loyalists had similarly ousted the chief minister of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The furor over Rama Rao's removal has probably bought time for the chief ministers of the other four states-Karnataka, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. In an unaccustomed show of unity last week, opposition politicians met in New Delhi to protest what they called the "blatantly unconstitutional" dismissals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Actor's Inequity | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...midst of the furor over the exclusion of American reporters from the military operation in Grenada last fall, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed a 14-member panel to draft guidelines for press access to future combat situations. Chaired by retired Army Major General Winant Sidle, the commission consisted of journalists and military public information officers. Last week Weinberger released their report and announced that the proposed guidelines are being put into effect. He also said he will appoint a permanent panel of journalists to assist in planning for news coverage of future military conflicts. Said he: "By forming such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Peace Pact on War Coverage | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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