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Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey failed to move up from Vice President to the No. 1 position in part because they seemed too eager for the job. Al Gore should start acting as if he doesn't care whether he becomes President. If he can do that, he'll convince the voters, and he'll win. MICHAEL ROSENBERG Chevy Chase...
Albright was suspicious. Primakov might have cut side deals with Baghdad that Washington would find unacceptable, so she demanded that the two of them, plus British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, meet to review the Russian statement. The only time the four envoys could fit a meeting into their packed schedules was at the ungodly hour of 2 a.m. the next day. Albright, who had already spent a grueling week shuttling and sleeping most nights on her jet, cut short the New Delhi visit and rushed to Geneva...
...feet and for announcements like "I always watch the Detroit Tigers on radio when I can." (One especially likes the "when I can.") And even earnest Jimmy Carter evokes memories--of the "attack rabbit" episode on his rafting vacation out West and of his Freud-grounded introduction of Hubert Humphrey at the 1980 Democratic National Convention as "Hubert Horatio Hornblower." Woodrow Wilson, too, could be impressive. "When enough people are out of work," he observed, "unemployment results...
...Israel see it? Didn't the fact that Israel could not avoid all terrorist attacks persuade it to agree on some peace process rather than continue a spiral of violence? Benjamin Netanyahu has harvested what he sowed. Please save us from this kind of simplistic and shortsighted commentary. HUBERT CHRISTIAEN Heverlee, Belgium...
Beyond the Beltway, the deal has plenty of detractors who may prove only too happy to provide legislators with the ammunition to blow the proposal to bits. Among the attorneys general, the chief naysayer through most of last week was Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey III, who argued that his colleagues were pushing too quickly for a settlement. (And they in turn accused him of grandstanding.) "They're trying to rush this through before we realize we've had our pockets picked," Humphrey said at midweek. He claimed tobacco could pay more than twice the agreed-upon amount, or some...