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...effect of the debate will most likely be to rid the media of its nagging preoccupation with the perceived Democratic malaise. Mondale's fiesty performance plays right into the pundits' vested interest--lamentable as it might be--making this thing a horse race. Watching Bob Schieffer and Lesley Stahl gush on post-debate Monday was the visual equivalent of watching a Mondale press conference, and one reason is clear. After dwelling for two months on Mondale's missteps and Reagan's opportunistic new patriotism, the fourth estate is bored. The press (us included doesn't want 25 point landslides...
...Dallas Convention Center, the President's tone will surely be more generous and magisterial. That is all according to plan. During the campaign, explains a political adviser, "you'll see aggressive speeches alternating in phases with 'statesmanlike' material." In his statesman mode, the President will let his optimism gush, encouraging voters to attribute the upbeat national mood to the presence of Ronald Reagan in the White House. Given the Democrats' recent flag-waving, middle-class tilt, he will work hard to protect his motherhood-and-apple-pie franchise...
...have already pleaded guilty, and two army officers of the West Bank military government are being tried separately. Israelis have been shocked not only to learn that an underground Jewish terrorist movement exists but by the list of those accused of taking part. Most of the suspects belong to Gush Emunim, the nationalistic religious group that has spearheaded the Jewish settlement movement in the occupied West Bank. Some are reserve paratroopers and tank commanders in the armed forces. One is a rabbi. The sight of these men, a few in their early 20s and most of them bearded and wearing...
Rabbi Moshe Levinger, the spiritual leader of Gush Emunim, insists that his followers acted only because the government failed to safeguard the West Bank settlements. "The arrested will yet go down in history as dear boys who worked for the state at a time when it did not do enough on their behalf," he said. Explained one of the men on trial: "We were groups of guys
...warm as children. Michael K changes. He feels bound to the land, even as he anticipates the inevitable stigmata. "I am becoming a different kind of man, he thought . . . If I were cut, he thought, holding his wrists out, looking at his wrists, the blood would no longer gush from me but seep, and after a little seeping dry and heal. If I were to die here . . . I would be dried out by the wind in a day, I would be preserved whole, like someone in the desert drowned in sand...