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...important state races, to boycott fund-raising activities on behalf of candidates who support the measure. "This is one- issue politics," said Cuomo. "The issue is called survival." Many prominent Republicans in the state were also alarmed. To protest the proposed change, G.O.P. Senator Alfonse D'Amato staged a mock re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party from a 62-foot sloop in New York City's East River. Even ardent Tax Reformer Jack Kemp, a Congressman from upstate, favors adjustments that would ease the tax burden on New York residents...
...Washington's most persistent fears is that a determined terrorist group might succeed in stealing plutonium and bomb components. A congressional subcommittee on energy disclosed in 1982 that the guard force at one of the country's weapons plants failed to respond to a mock raid on a plutonium vault until 16 minutes after the "attackers" had left...
...downtown Boston, black-robed protesters wearing skull masks act as pall- bearers in a mock funeral for Nicaragua's war casualties. A banner reads 7,000 NICARAGUANS MURDERED BY CIA CONTRAS. At a University of Florida rally in Gainesville, students on the other side of the issue call the contras "freedom fighters" and cheer as Marcos Zeledon, a leader of those rebels, decries Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Los Angeles a large crowd gathers to hear liberal Actor Ed Asner debate with Lewis Lehrman, a conservative activist. The subject: "Should the U.S. resume aid to the contras...
...games. Invited by the Department of Defense, which frequently asks National Guard units to assist in maneuvers, the reservists flew down to play the bad guys in the second stage of the three-month-long joint operation. With 17 tanks and 17 armored personnel carriers, they staged a mock assault on a Honduran hilltop position, sweeping toward the encampment in a 4 1/2-mile-wide front while Honduran warplanes darted overhead...
...goes according to Washington's script, perhaps shuddering a bit at the display of U.S. force near their border. Those tanks, for instance, were manned by soldiers of the Texas National Guard, playing the role of invading Sandinistas for the benefit of Honduran pilots, who carried out mock bombing and strafing runs against them (see box). Officially, the maneuvers are not even war games, just joint "training exercises." Pentagon officials go so far as to insist, with resolutely straight faces, that last week's "tank battle" and next week's amphibious landing are not directly linked...