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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convention": Jackson's role. Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel detected a cooperative mood during a three-hour private dinner over ribs with Jackson in Kansas City Monday night, and after the two candidates met for two hours the next day, they sounded warily friendly. Jackson handed Mondale a list of black and Hispanic women who, he said, should be considered as potential Vice Presidents. More substantive, Jackson pledged that "together we will prevail in November" and even conceded that runoff primaries do not invariably discriminate against black office seekers. That indicated that Jackson might accept defeat gracefully on his minority...
...difficult role. Harvey Gotham is a wealthy scholar-dilettante who retires to rural France in his mid-30s. There he occupies himself with a monograph on the riddle of universal suffering: If the Lord is beneficent, why does his earth contain so much misery? On the bestseller list that conundrum is called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Here it is entitled The Only Problem...
Whatever its effect on the federal deficit, the health-cost bill is unlikely to remove Medicare from the critical list. Pressured by high-cost medical advances and a graying population, the $59.8 billion program, which serves some 30 million Americans, could go $97 billion in the hole as early as 1995. Said Eva Skinner, chairman of California's Legislative Coalition for Health Care Cost Containment: "Congress produced a quick fix to get us through the election...
...Arab mayors of two cities in the occupied West Bank. Three others have already pleaded guilty, and two army officers of the West Bank military government are being tried separately. Israelis have been shocked not only to learn that an underground Jewish terrorist movement exists but by the list of those accused of taking part. Most of the suspects belong to Gush Emunim, the nationalistic religious group that has spearheaded the Jewish settlement movement in the occupied West Bank. Some are reserve paratroopers and tank commanders in the armed forces. One is a rabbi. The sight of these...
After the election date was announced last March, some supporters lobbied to place Begin's name on the official list of candidates as a sign of their esteem. But the former Prime Minister demurred...