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...with a kind of primer on journalism -- "Trying to ask honest questions and trying to be persistent about answers is part of a reporter's job" -- he served up a tepid mea culpa on having cut Bush off at the end: "Ending live television interviews under time pressures sometimes isn't done as gracefully as we hope or intend, and last night was one of those times...
...escrow, to be released depending on future Sandinista behavior. Perhaps, said Wright, but only "if we're willing to abide by the determination of those Central Americans themselves . . . rather than allowing someone in the State Department simply on his whim to say who is complying and who isn...
...sought-after guest on TV talk shows. CBS's 60 Minutes has shot a segment on the maverick educator, and Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to his life story ("six figures," plus a percentage of the net, for Joe), with Sidney Poitier as a possible star. "Isn't it something," Clark beams, "that this little black Newark welfare boy is the most popular man in America right...
...Nixon isn't ducking. Less reluctant support for Dole comes from a former occupant of the Oval Office. Richard Nixon, who favors Dole, has been quietly passing along advice and encouragement, mainly through intermediaries...
Though Dole talks sense about fiscal responsibility, he refrains from laying out his deficit arithmetic and, at times, seems positively unenthused about his own one-year budget freeze. "It isn't the best policy," he said last week. "But it is easily understood and can sell politically." But that is still a profile in courage compared to Bush, whose only tangible proposal is to slash the capital-gains taxes to 15%. This leftover supply-side nostrum, also endorsed by Kemp, would destroy the tax-reform principle that earned and unearned income should be treated alike...