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What started as a shoo-in has evolved into a tight, tough three-man race. The early leader was seven-term Congressman Barry Gold water Jr., 43, of Los Angeles, whose famous name has enormous appeal for the state's conservatives. BARRY GOLDWATER FOR THE U.S. SENATE, A TRADITION...
Early in the campaign, Goldwater decided not to debate his opponents, a strategy that could cost him the election. "I don't want to give a forum that could possibly advance [Wilson's] situation," he explained. Wilson, who calls Goldwater "my phantom opponent," retorted, "He owes the voters...
As head of the NSA, a supersecret agency that uses satellites, sophisticated monitoring techniques and more employees (more than 20,000) than the CIA (some 16,000) to gather intelligence information, Inman developed considerable rapport with congressional committees. When President Reagan was looking for a CIA chief in late 1980...
Inman's associates said, however, that the admiral chafed at playing second fiddle to Casey after running the NSA. When Casey came under fire last July for alleged business improprieties, Goldwater called for his resignation, hoping Inman would succeed him. But White House aides warned that if Casey were...
"Everything in the Post story was true," Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who heads the Senate committee, told TIME. "They didn't have everything, but everything they had is true." At a meeting of the National Security Council last November, Reagan approved approximately $19 million to recruit, train and...