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...REPORTED. SOUTH KOREA's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements; in a confidential memo given to the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors; in Vienna, Austria. The report found that Seoul failed to fully disclose details of its nuclear experiments to the IAEA from 1982 to 2000 and had conducted more extensive tests than suspected. The agency must now decide whether to bring South Korea before the U.N. Security Council for the lapses...
...terrifying. A top Kerry fund raiser condensed the pros and cons of Gutsball in a memo and sent it round to the inner circle. Gutsball meant Kerry would try to raise $150 million in the final three months of the race. It meant diverting Kerry and Edwards at least 40 times to blue-state cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, where money was plentiful but swing votes were not. And playing Gutsball ensured that Bush would opt out of funding too. On the other hand, the memo noted, if Kerry didn't opt out, Bush still might...
...trust anyone's instincts but his own. Ten days before the election, Lockhart and pollster Stan Greenberg started circulating a battle plan among Kerry's top advisers that called for an abrupt pivot in tone and message for the final stretch. He should talk more about domestic issues, the memo said, adopt a "positive and hopeful tone" and offer optimism instead of fear. "We want to elevate the choice by elevating the moment and the consequences--of four more years of Bush, with all the partiality and bleakness, or a fresh start for America with Kerry, with sense...
...which sounded nice--except that Kerry didn't buy any of it. When he saw the gauzy stump speech his staff had produced from the memo, Kerry told the advisers aboard his plane--Shrum, Sasso, Cutter and McCurry--that the last thing he could afford now was to start sounding like Oprah. Not while Americans were hearing of hostage beheadings and car bombs every night on the news; not while Bush and Cheney were stoking the voters' fears with ads about wolves in the forest and hints of a postelection nuclear holocaust. A warm and fuzzy message now, Kerry said...
Kerry sent the speech back to be overhauled. He wanted a guided missile, not a softball. On Oct. 25, Lockhart and Greenberg described the final march in a memo titled "THE FINAL PHASE Take Three." Kerry would keep making the campaign about Bush's failings --how he had made "catastrophic misjudgments" in Iraq, how he was letting down the middle class on everything from jobs to college costs to health care. And how, as long as Bush kept saying everything was fine, "the country dare not hope for something better...