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...fitness of William Joseph Casey, 68, to stay on as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Senate Intelligence Committee, which Goldwater leads, promised to push on with its investigation of Casey, but Ronald Reagan's former campaign manager clearly had won, on points, one of the nastiest brawls in Washington since the President took office. In a broader sense, however, everyone lost. Casey remained under suspicion. Goldwater and other Senators who attacked Casey prematurely had been forced to retreat. Questions about secret CIA operations, and the character and judgment of the nation's top spymasters, had been...
Idaho voters are faced with a bitter, invective-filled Senate race -one of the nastiest political contests of the year. But in two other states, candidates for the House are mostly staying away from personalities: in North Carolina's Piedmont region, an old-school Southern gentleman is fighting genteelly to retain his seat, while in central Indiana, a moderate-conservative Democrat and a conservative Republican are debating issues and ideology...
...wait. What is that ominous sound in the background, that heavy breathing that strikes terror in the hearts of all those who love peace and freedom? It could only be the scourge of the universe, the nastiest man from here to infinity, Archvillain Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of Sith and leader of the Imperial Forces. It is time, in other words, to hurry up, buy the popcorn, M&M's, or whatever else you like to munch in front of the silver screen, and grab a seat for The Empire Strikes Back...
...prices. Fine, except that Ford did it and Kennedy voted for it. Petty bickering breaks out between the two camps over whose version of the facts is more distorted; the issue of energy costs is trivialized. Veteran campaign watchers are predicting that this will be one of the nastiest campaigns in American history...
Neither side so far has produced convincing statistics, but by last week the squabbling had degenerated into some of the nastiest transatlantic name-calling in years. The West German Economics Minister, Count Otto Lambsdorff, expressed "surprise and regret" at the U.S. subsidy. One of his assistants captured the prevailing sentiment: "It hurts when your friends stab you in the back." In Washington, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet led a weeklong parade of protesting diplomats through the White House. François-Poncet got a mere 15-minute meeting with President Carter, and that reflected the crisp indifference...