Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall. Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, acting as a mediator between Mondale and Hart, said of the Senator: "He knows the importance of defeating Ronald Reagan and I'm convinced he'll play a constructive role in the weeks ahead." Many Democrats are even touting him as an ideal running mate for Mondale (see following story...
Mondale indeed has weathered ten debates in the past six months, while Reagan has not debated anyone in four years. But Mondale must avoid the fate of his former running mate, Jimmy Carter. In 1980 Carter scored more substantive points than Reagan, but the former actor won the debate on tone and style-and the election shortly thereafter. Mondale, though warm and funny in private, is stiff on television; while Reagan grins easily and naturally, Mondale sometimes bares his teeth like the runner-up in a beauty contest...
...Afghan border. The guerrillas took the arms away in a Soviet-made truck; when that vehicle broke down, they switched to camels. Upon arrival at the outskirts of Kabul, the mujahedin opened the boxes and carefully packed each mine in a mixture of camel dung, mud and straw-the mate rials that local peasants use to build walls. Finally, more than two weeks later, ponies piled high with the booty arrived at Massoud's base in the Panjshir Valley. Says a senior Western diplomat in the region: "Considering that we are living in the age of computers...
...seven months ago while playing a benefit in Reno; she for the third time, he for the second; in Miami Beach. Only two weeks before the wedding, in a magazine interview, Reynolds called her personal life a "disaster," adding, "I obviously have no taste in choosing a mate and should never trust myself ever...
Griffiths was elected Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1982. South Carolina Senator Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings, campaigning last fall for the Democratic nomination, often mentioned her as a potential running mate. The sprightly septuagenarian beams at the prospect of being on the ticket, and swats off suggestions that her age might be a handicap. "You could say the same thing about Ronald Reagan in 1980," she says. There are more serious minuses: as a Midwesterner, she would offer no geographic diversity to Minnesotan Walter Mondale; she has also criticized Gary Hart on the Chrysler bailout. But if she were tapped, says...