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...Reagan's strongest lead is in the Midwest (46% to 26%) and the South (47% to 28%). His lead is smaller in the Northeast (41% to 35%) and the West (44% to 37%). Reagan holds a 30-point advantage among those making $30,000 or more a year, but trails by two points among those making less than...
...Sandinistas of building a military airfield near Managua that could handle any combat plane in the Soviet arsenal. For two years the Sandinistas have dismissed the charge. But wait. Transportation Minister Carlos Zarruck last week acknowledged that an airport is indeed being constructed at Punta Huete, about 13 miles northeast of the capital. Zarruck insisted that the facility is designed primarily for civilian traffic, though he did not rule out a military role. He said that the project is entirely a Nicaraguan undertaking and that it should be finished in 1986. Administration sources contend that Cubans are in charge...
...Miskitos and the much less numerous Sumos and Ramas make up at most 4% of Nicaragua's 2.9 million people. Their traditional lands include most of the country's northeast region, which to the Sandinistas has strategic value as a buffer against Honduras. The underpopulated and economically neglected Miskito territory is a trove of timber and gold. Less than a year after they took power, the Sandinistas began to seize control of the area by transferring authority over land ownership to the state. Eventually they launched a direct assault on the Miskitos by proclaiming an agrarian reform...
Roanoke Sound lay beyond the stage; water lapped at the set. Lightning bugs not yet mature enough to illuminate danced on a northeast breeze. The smell of Cutter's lay heavy upon the air. Now and again someone would thwack a thigh and a mosquito would perish. Periodically, Layton would clap his hands three times sharply and stop the work: "People, make it your own-even though I am giving you all this picky stuff...
Mondale's planners still have not drawn up a firm list of pivotal states. Before the convention, their battle map was the reverse of Reagan's: sweep the industrial Northeast and Midwest, which have become the new Democratic heartland, then pick off a few big Western or, more likely, Southern states. Lance mentions Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida as possibilities, and adds, "We have to win Texas to be elected...