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...surprised by your idiotic assertion that Walter Mondale comes across to his audience as a stiff and uninspiring speaker. Give the man a little credit. He knows the issues inside out and is willing to discuss them headon. The same cannot be said of Ronald Reagan...
...disrupting the lives and privacy of individuals and jeopardizing the security of this nation." TIME itself was not exempt from the general condemnation ("Shame on you for a cover story devoid of any mention of TIME gaffes and insensitivities"), though some readers praised the magazine for tackling the issue headon...
European chairmanship of the INF talks would oblige Europe's leaders to face the issue headon; their domestic critics would no longer be able to argue (as they do now) that U.S. intransigence is the principal obstacle to arms control...
...scarcely written these words when he met their reality headon. A few months after marrying Eileen O'Shaughnessy, 30, an Oxford graduate who was working for an advanced degree in psychology in London, Orwell went to Spain. The attempt by Generalissimo Francisco Franco to topple an elected left-wing government had led to civil war. Orwell could not pass up the chance to see "democracy standing up to Fascism at last." He arrived in Barcelona at the end of 1936 and found a city being run by the underdogs: "It was the first time that I had ever been...
...national Democratic leaders who went to Chicago to appeal for party unity and cultivate black voters. Congressman Claude Pepper of Florida, the octogenarian hero of the elderly, also was booed by a white audience last week. Douglas Fraser, the president of the United Auto Workers, confronted the race issue headon. Said he: "This election would have been over the day after the primary except that Harold Washington is black." Ohio Senator John Glenn said the Chicago campaign showed that "we're at the hardest part of the civil rights movement... How do you change hearts and minds?" One prominent...