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...Hart and Mondale offer very different prescriptions for world trouble spots...
Central America. Hart's policy can basically be summed up by an antiwar slogan from the 1960s: "Out Now." He calls for the "immediate withdrawal" of all troops from the region, and he would simply cu off U.S. military aid to El Salvador unti all death-squad activity ceased. Mondale would link U.S. aid to El Salvador to progress on land reform and an end to the death squads. He would continue the U.S. efforts to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Salvadoran rebels, but unlike President Reagan, he would not back the contras against...
Middle East. With an eye to New York's large Jewish vote, each candidate has been trying to outdo the other in proclaiming undying fealty to Israel. Hart was quicker to demand the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon, although how much quicker remains a matter of dispute. Their greatest and most revealing differences in the Middle East come over Persian Gulf oil. Mondale says he would be willing to commit U.S. ground troops to keep it flowing; Hart says he would not. At the debate, Mondale said that the U.S. must "make certain that the American interest in stability...
...bargaining table by reviving the spirit of detente. With that attitude in mind, Reagan gibed last week, "Good will and sincerity will get them a smile and a glass of vodka. And you can guess why the Soviets will be smiling." At the debate, Mondale tried to tag Hart with flip-flopping perilously on arms control and only slowly perceiving the true virtue of freezing nuclear arms, but his attack missed the point. The truth is that Hart first explored more sophisticated approaches to arms control, like the "build down" that would allow the superpowers to build new weapons only...
...conflict between Hart and Mondale over foreign and defense questions is in the tradition of Democratic primaries. In 1968, for instance, Antiwar Candidate Eugene McCarthy helped persuade President Lyndon Johnson not to run again by nearly upsetting him in New Hampshire. Because foreign affairs are more exclusively the province of the Executive Branch than are domestic matters, campaign promises are taken more seriously by voters-and by America's allies. A British diplomat has traveled on the Hart plane to observe the candidate on the stump. On an eight-day tour of the U.S. (see following story), French President...