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...most heated, intense, close-in debate of the Democratic campaign. At stake was this week's New York primary, with its 252 delegates and high media profile. Hart, buoyed by a solid 53%-to-29% victory in Connecticut last week, hoped to re-establish himself as the man to beat with an upset win. Mondale could not afford to lose a state so heavily stocked with his favorite constituencies: union households (36% of the registered Democrats expected to vote), Jews (33%) and the elderly (20% of New York Democrats are over 60). With 200 spectators and 15 million...
...Hart shot back, "Why have you questioned my commitment to arms control and civil rights, when you know that I have just as much commitment to both of those as you do? The ads illustrate a point. This country cannot deploy young Americans in every trouble spot in the Third World and expect to solve that problem...
...Hart-Mondale clash was more than a family feud between like-minded rivals. Their differences have reopened a debate that has flared periodically since America assumed the mantle of global leadership after World War II, namely, the degree to which the U.S. should intervene abroad when its interests or those of its allies are affected. With most domestic issues too complex or gray to rouse voters, concerns about the U.S. role abroad have come to dominate the Democrats' race. Says Mondale Press Secretary Maxine Isaacs: "The campaign has boiled down to foreign policy...
...Hart and Mondale come out of opposing foreign policy schools within the Democratic Party. Mondale was shaped by the cold war, as first waged by Harry Truman (whose 1947 Truman Doctrine sweepingly extended U.S. protection to "free peoples" everywhere) and later taught by Mondale's mentor, Hubert Humphrey. The enemy was global Communism, which had to be contained by the threat or use of force from Europe to Korea. Under President Jimmy Carter, Mondale joined in a foreign policy that stressed human rights over anti-Communist ideology. The former Vice President says he is now a "mature internationalist...
...Hart's formative experience was the Viet Nam War; as George McGovern's 1972 campaign manager, Hart was a prominent opponent of America's military involvement in Southeast Asia. The real enemy, says Hart, is not Communism but "poverty, hunger and disease." In most internal disputes in foreign countries, he contends, the U.S. not only backs the wrong side-"repression and corruption and privilege"-but "inevitably the losing side." Hart charges that Mondale was slow to turn against the Viet Nam War and has yet to learn its lessons. A leader, said Hart, must know "not only...