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Suarez, the second-term mayor of Miami, saidthe next president must show some affinity withthe Hispanic community. He said that if thepresidential nominees turn out to be VicePresident George Bush and Rep. Richard Gephardt(D.-Mo.), Bush would do much better in the Hispaniccommunity...
...then governor, then governor again and soon...well, who knows? Jesse Jackson was a young civil rights leader in the 1960s. He didn't gain his prominence, even as the leading national Black leader, until he entered the presidential race in 1984. And let us not forget that Richard Gephardt is after all a simple congressman representing a portion of St. Louis...
Among the Democrats, with 81 percent of the precincts reporting, Dukakis had 20,386 votes or 56 percent and Jackson had 10,012 votes or 27 percent. Rep. Richard Gephardt (D.-Mo.), who visited the state several times, had 8 percent of the vote and Sen. Paul Simon (D.-III.), who made no real effort, had 6 percent. Hart had 4 percent and Sen. Albert Gore Jr. (D.-Tenn.) was not on the ballot...
...work things out behind the scenes. Dukakis is not a bold politician. When colleagues pressed the Governor in 1986 to rally the public behind his compulsory seat- belt law, he balked. When attacked publicly, however, Dukakis is a dangerous opponent. Last summer staffers pressed him repeatedly to challenge Richard Gephardt's trade policies. Typically, Dukakis held back. But when Gephardt openly started to criticize him, Dukakis drew the Congressman into a debate...
...from Anchorman Peter Jennings before a half- hour wrap-up at midnight Eastern standard time. ABC's last-of-the-evening program was, bravely, the first of the political season to shun the obligatory candidate interviews. A good thing: by that time, one more round of "spin $ control" from Gephardt, Simon, Kemp, et al., might have caused mass defections to the Soviet hockey team...