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...only has Bush recruited a top-flight campaign staff, but he also has, as he put it in an interview last week, "learned that you don't get bogged down in a lot of details or run the campaign yourself." Bush's new take-no-guff political persona is, of course, one of the major surprises of the campaign. Bush's stiff but improving podium personality can be viewed as an ability to learn from earlier mistakes and to patiently absorb the coaching of others...
...ideological baggage that the pockets of a trench coat could handle, namely the message that espionage is a dirty business whose dirt is fairly evenly distributed on both sides. Forsyth was darkly entertaining in The Day of the Jackal, but his new book is tract writing, and its tendentious guff leaves the reader where he started, unwilling to believe and unable to escape. -By John Skow
Heller warned, however, of several "thunderheads" that could rain on Reagan's re-election effort or generate hailstorms for whoever occupies the White House in 1985. The dangers include rising interest rates, a gargantuan federal deficit, a plunge in the dollar's value, a cutoff of Persian Guff oil supplies, and increasing turmoil in the financial industry as a result of the near collapse of the Continental Illinois Bank and the continuing troubles that major banks are having with loans to Latin American countries...
...after the debate and, with Mondale listening, told him sternly that a continued refusal to disavow Farrakhan would hinder party efforts to work out a convention compromise on Jackson's platform demands. Said one Jackson aide: "It was the first time I've ever seen Jesse take guff from anybody." Jackson tried unsuccessfully to phone Farrakhan; it seemed Likely that the candidate wanted to put more distance between himself and his raucous supporter...
...meets another pregnant woman. Patricia Meyrand and her husband, who are on their way to meet his parents in Bordeaux Loud, kind, and as aggressive as Helene is retiring. Patricia tries to look out for the abandoned woman, regaling her with memories of California--"Where dames take no guff"--and tales of the in-laws she is on her way to meet for the first time...