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...reputation come hard. Not only are they cut up by rivals, and by columnists with opposing views, but their presence, in the limelight exposes traits in them that reporters seize upon. With Gerald Ford, a frequent target was his physical clumsiness; with Jimmy Carter, it was his "meanness." (The knock on Ronald Reagan, which White House publicists are trying to deflect, is "insensitivity" about the poor.) Carter is still in limbo: he roams the country flogging his memoirs, to a public not yet ready to resuscitate...
Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabeus chronicles the rise of the revolutionaries to save the Hebrews from Greek and Syrian interlopers in post-Biblical times, it's also a momentous enough piece to knock a chorus and audience out for the rest of the night, what with trumpets bells, and victory chants...
...second element that lessens the severity of the counterforce gap is the new American SLBM, the Trident II, which will be a seagoing missile powerful and accurate enough to knock out Soviet silos. In the sea-based leg of its triad, the U.S. already has a huge advantage over the Soviet Union in three respects: geography makes it far easier for the U.S. to get its subs to sea and keep them there; U.S. subs are much quieter than Soviet ones and therefore harder to track and destroy in a conflict; and American SLBMs are more numerous, more accurate...
...RECENT ELECTION'S most significant impact is Helms precarious personal position. Democrats are fancifully anticipating an excellent 1984 opportunity to knock down the New Right's leading bully...
...They've learned so much since they started out," he continues, "Joe used to be overly aggressive, and he's learned how to control that and use it to his advantage. And Pat, in his early years, was a little soft. That's not meant to be a knock. He was just so conscientious that sometimes he worried too much about making a mistake...