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After ten grueling days in the national spotlight, Geraldine Ferraro and John Zaccaro took a midweek break at their comfortable home in Forest Hills, N. Y. They were surrounded by their extended political family: accountants, campaign aides, Secret Service agents. In a wide-ranging interview with TIME New York Bureau Chief John Stacks and Washington Correspondent David Beckwith, the candidate and her husband spoke candidly, and heatedly, about what has happened to them. The correspondents' report...
Even before he arrived in Dallas at midweek from Washington, it was clear that Reagan bestrode his party like few candidates before him. Not since 1972, when Richard Nixon faced George McGovern, had G.O.P. strategists been more confident of reviving what Kansas Senator Robert Dole called "an old and honored tradition, the two-term presidency." Not since Dwight Eisenhower's second campaign for the White House in 1956 could the Republicans offer a more salable candidate. Polls are showing Reagan at the peak of his popularity with American voters; they are also documenting signs of new national feelings...
...reduce the risk of setting off magnetic mines. France has sent four minesweepers and two support ships to the region. The U.S. dispatched four Sea Stallion helicopters and a contingent of about 200 men aboard the Shreveport, an amphibious transport vessel that entered the Gulf of Suez at midweek. The Shreveport joined the U.S. oceanographic ship the Harkness, where 15 mine-warfare experts were already at work. Later the U.S. sent three helicopters to Saudi Arabia at the Saudis' request. Italian vessels were due in the area this week...
...midweek the President's team was wary of talking about taxes. Between the fiscal ideas of President and Vice President, claimed Bush to reporters as he stepped into a limousine, "there are no differences." Then he said, "No more nitpicking! It's an upbeat day, it's off to the races." Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, during testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, repeated the presidential line almost word for word. "There are no plans for tax increases in 1985," he said. Yet he declined to venture an opinion about 1986 or beyond: "That...
...said, "Carter-Mondale actually gave us an America held hostage to the ayatullahs of the world." Mondale replied that Iran had eventually returned all the hostages alive and that during the crisis Hart had failed to suggest any way that their release could have been secured earlier; by midweek Hart rather lamely asserted that he meant only to criticize the failure of the April 1980 rescue mission...