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Gary Hart's best chance for victory always lay in the possibility of embarrassing his opponent with a string of impressive victories, but Michigan and Illinois cut that string short. It is now very unlikely that either candidate can force the other out of the race before the convention. At this point, in order to have a chance at winning the nomination. Hart must take the lead in delegate strength by winning delusive victories in western primaries and caucuses, especially California on June 5th. If he does not, and Mondale appears to be within striking distance of a majority, then...
...godlike creatures known as adults. In 1939, the year of America's last idyl, friends and family play out their lives in the Midwestern mill town, impervious to the Great Depression and the war that has already begun a world away. Here Tommy's parents lay down draconian laws, then act with well-meaning hypocrisy. The word Negro is never mentioned in the presence of a black steward because "the condition it described was thought to be embarrassing at best and irreversible in any case, and polite people did not call attention to the ill fortune of others...
...purposes." Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban gave foreign journalists deliberately smudged signals about what the regime would do next if protests continued over government orders to remove crucifixes from more schools, as occurred last week in the town of Mietno. Said Urban: "State schools in Poland were and will remain lay institutions. It therefore follows that religious symbols cannot be displayed. State institutions cannot be places of worship. The state does not try to secularize church institutions, and the church must not try to clericalize state institutions. Some overzealous people do not understand this." To make certain that the "zealots" understood...
Next thing we knew, George McGovern, the son of a pastor and an obvious chip off the old block, was running (badly) for President. Jimmy Carter (who made it) and John Anderson (who did not) were virtually lay ministers before and during their political careers. Now we are inundated with Presidents and candidates who have a strong evangelical tinge or background. Both Walter Mondale and his wife are the children of preachers. Gary Hart, who once planned to become a minister, comes out of deep Bible country in Kansas, attended a religious college, then went on to the Yale Divinity...
Wickham also said that "there's a national self-flagellation every time we use military power and it does not work. In Honduras, there's a lot of flagellation about our bases there. But we have to send a message to Nicaragua. "Lay off Honduras--we mean business," and also help Honduras's self-defense...