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Democratic conventions have never been for the fainthearted. Whatever Democrats believe, they tend to believe it with the brawling gusto of a radio talk-show host. Whether it was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley snarling read-my- lips obscenities in 1968 or Senator Edward Kennedy battling a sitting President to the last bitter moment in 1980, Democrats have settled their differences with the civility of the Hatfields and the McCoys. Even the 1932 convention that first nominated Party Icon Franklin Roosevelt was raucous and bitter. As H.L. Mencken wrote at the time, "The great combat is ending this afternoon in classical...
When it comes time for Mikhail Gorbachev to take his traditional late-summer vacation on the Black Sea this year, no one will be able to say he has not earned it. In the past seven weeks alone, the Soviet leader has played host to a superpower summit meeting with Ronald Reagan, climaxed by the signing of the first treaty eliminating an entire category of nuclear weapons; improved relations with religious leaders during ceremonies observing the millennium of Christianity in Russia; and presided over what may be remembered as a historic Communist Party conference that endorsed his plan for political...
...trademark flesh-pressing tours were not a guaranteed box-office success in a country that harbors an enmity toward Moscow leaders dating far back in history -- an enmity deepened by the imposition of martial law in 1981 under threat of Soviet intervention. It hardly helped matters that Gorbachev's host was Party Boss Wojciech Jaruzelski, the army general who imposed and later rescinded the military rule and who remains widely disliked in Poland. The visit, moreover, came at a time of economic crisis, with living standards for many Poles down 50% in the past eight years, largely because of government...
...National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has assembled a formidable "truth squad," including Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, and a host of other congressmen to crow about the Reagan administration's accomplishments and question Dukakis' record...
...Fourth of July weekend, and last week Professor Bubble demonstrated the miracles of surface tension. Next Sunday, the Sea Chanty Singers and Storytellers from the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut will tell children about the New England ocean life, and for its final weekend, Summer Splash will host a beach party complete with 70 tons of imported sand...