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...policy will reverberate throughout the fall presidential campaign. Added to the debacle in Lebanon and the icy state of relations with the Soviet Union, the mining episode has revived an image of Reagan as both trigger-happy and inept in foreign policy. That is just the image the Democrats intend to build up. Cried Walter Mondale on the stump last week: "Ronald Reagan's misguided and counterproductive policies in Central America are widening, militarizing and Americanizing the conflicts, and it's gotten worse every day. For months, I've predicted that if Mr. Reagan continues this blundering course, ultimately American...
...geographical West. As voters were marking ballots in Pennsylvania, Hart pulled back from predicting that he would win a majority of delegates before the convention. "The contest gets down to one thing," he said. "It's not just who can get the most delegate votes-although I intend to get the most delegate votes-but who can broaden the base of the party...
...problem. "The voters really like his message," she said, "but they're not sure he's the one they want to carry it out. They haven't learned enough about Gary yet to know him." Although it is late for such basic tactics, the Hart advisers intend to run more biographical ads just to familiarize voters with the man. "We've got to get across the fact that Gary's a for-real U.S. Senator with ten years of experience," explains Aide Mark Hogan. "He's a decent, compassionate, helluva nice...
...goin to make an example of Milton Colman!" cried the religious leader on a radio show broadcast from Chicago. "What do [we] intend to do to Mr. Coleman? At this point, no physical harm . . . We're going to punish the traitor and make the traitor beg for forgiveness . . . One day soon we will punish you with death! . . . This is a fitting punishment for such dogs." Coleman's wife, he promised, would "go to hell . . . the same punishment that's due that no-good, filthy traitor." The speaker: Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black Nation of Islam...
...Administration policy in Central America, has quietly consulted with some Latin American countries over the possibility of helping to remove the mines as a "humanitarian" measure. The French condition for such help is that "one or several friendly European powers" also offer to cooperate. Declaring that it did not intend to join France in the minesweeping venture, the British government nonetheless added that it disapproved, in the words of a spokesman, "of any threat to the principle of freedom of navigation...