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Mondale's aides insist that the issues-the deficit, the arms race, "fairness" - favor their man and that he understands better than the President the complexities of running the Government. "Public opinion is going to force the Reagan camp out of the photo-opportunity, nondebate strategy," says Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel. "If Reagan will stop ducking and running, I think you'll see that style is overtaken by substance and that the American people are pretty smart." Last week the two camps agreed to at least one Mondale-Reagan debate, and possibly more...
...stubborn independence: she had sternly and successfully resisted efforts to tie her to a whirlwind August campaign schedule that she felt would be premature. Mondale and his aides feared they could not predict how she would react to heavy pressure on the financial disclosure issue. They also insist that Mondale felt confident such pressure would prove unnecessary: he had seen both Ferraro's and Zaccaro's tax returns, was convinced that the couple had nothing damaging to hide, and trusted they would see it that way too. In the end he proved to be right, but only after...
...criticism, the young Turks are willing to take chances. Gingrich, who calls himself a "visionary conservative," wants a re-elected Reagan to launch a "dynamic, audacious first 100 days reminiscent of Roosevelt's first term." Their biggest gamble would be to ignore the pleas of the pragmatists, who insist that a tax hike is necessary to reduce the deficit. Supply-Side Apostles Kemp and Gingrich not only oppose a tax increase but would cut taxes even more. The reward, they insist, would be unprecedented economic growth. The deficit would diminish as increased revenues poured in, without the sacrifice...
Prosecutors insist that in the unraveling of high-level criminal conspiracies, it usually takes a scoundrel to catch one. Says H. Richard Uviller, a criminal-law professor at Columbia University and former Manhattan prosecutor: "You'd love to have witnesses who are all picked for their virtue and sterling characters, but it doesn't always happen that way. And so you take them where you find them." Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry made the same point to the De Lorean jury in the words of an old lawyers' axiom: "For a plot hatched in hell...
...when they all go overseas, they insist that their tourist spot be tourist-free, the better to experience the simulated authenticity of another way of life. To holiday is to go native, to be native-temporarily, of course...