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...without them. "Most Americans," says Harvard Political Scientist Gary Orren, "would get their political information from two sources: either from the Pepsi-Cola-like ads that the candidates put out-and boy, they're getting good at it!-or through little snippets that are no longer than 1 min. 20 sec. on the nightly TV news." For all their artificiality, the debates offer voters a rare chance to see the candidates in a situation they do not totally control, and to gauge how they react to pressure and deal with the unexpected...
...brilliant in its simplicity. In a few sentences uttered before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City last week, Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte pierced the psychological curtain that has divided his nation through nearly five years of civil war. During a 55-min. address, the stocky, dynamic Christian Democrat announced that he would travel unarmed to meet with his Marxist-Leninist foes, the guerrilla commanders of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). At the meeting, he said, he would discuss the incorporation of the insurgents "into the process of democracy, and the preparation...
...listeners interrupted his 24-min. speech 54 times with applause, and when Reagan shrugged, "Well, I've got to go now," they shouted, "No! No! No!" Reagan waved genially. A thousand balloons floated skyward. The crowd chanted, "Four more years! Four more years...
Those impressions stand to be fixed powerfully in voters' minds this week: the vice-presidential candidates meet for their single 90-min. debate on Thursday in Philadelphia...
...case involves a 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in South Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, calls the program a "hatchet job" for alleging that he engaged in a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength. According to the 90-min. broadcast, Westmoreland's command, in its reports to President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated Viet Cong strength at about 300,000. Many intelligence operatives believed the true figure was closer to 500,000. The program also charges that the Saigon command withheld information about the nearly...