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...Kalb, who does not sport a bow tie, yesterday followed his usual tack in these hour-long interviews sponsored by the Kennedy School's Shorenstein-Barone Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy of firing questions on a broad range of policy questions. But, as usual, the answers he got rarely went beyond campaign rhetoric...
...Kalb, director of the Shorenstein-BaroneCenter, bills the forums as "live, unrehearsedconversations with the major candidates" of bothparties...
...impressions left by thebroadcasts, which are televised on PBS eachSunday, have been confined to the level of thecandidate's sartorial splendor and his ability toscore a quick comeback against Kalb...
...hard-nosed questioning by Kalb, a veteranreporter who was formerly NBC News's chiefdiplomatic correspondent, has touched on a widevariety of substantive policy issues. Yesterday hepushed Simon on his plans for the economy; lastweek he hammered away at Gov. Michael S. Dukakis(D-Mass.) on the issue of his inexperience withforeign policy...
...these tough, substance-oriented questionstend to get lost among the many personal queriesthat Kalb makes. On foreign policy last month,Dukakis was forced to admit he has never read anyof the major popular books on the Soviet Union.Simon yesterday called "Black Boy" by RichardWright his favorite book and in a previousinterview Republican candidate Pierre du Pont IVdefended his right to call himself "Pete...