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...party has been rusting and clunking along for years on only two or three cylinders. Unless they recover their partisan energies and intellectual vigor, the Democrats could enter a long historical passage of declining influence and relevance, becoming the political equivalent of some of the decaying cities of the Northeast, once flourishingly productive, the exuberant places where the modern Democratic Party originated...
...little behind the times, it was because they were looking to the future. Along with the residents often other towns in the Northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada, they were trying to cut their energy usage as part of a three-day conservation competition. The effort was sponsored by the Northeast International Committee on Energy, founded in 1978 by the six New England Governors and the premiers of Canada's five eastern provinces. In addition to Monterey, the American communites were Middlebury, Vt; Ellsworth, Me.; Plymouth, N.H.; Mansfield, Conn.; and Burrillville, R.I. From the north came stiff competition-frozen stiff...
...contest moved up the East Coast towards the major urban centers of the Northeast, Reagan's momentum held; except for a narrow Democratic victory in Massachusetts, the Republican captured most of the country's older industrial centers, including surprise wins in Connecticut and New York...
Though conventional wisdom has held that heavy turnouts in the Northeast helps Democratic candidates, yesterday's record attendance at the polls seemed to benefit the Republicans, who also picked up several unexpected Senate and House victories...
...tour of the combat zone, TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart observed a major road-building operation under way between a point on theBasra, to the Iraqi front at Ahwaz some 100 miles to the northeast. Reported Stewart: "Civilians man hundreds of giant road-building machines night and day in an effort to complete the two-lane high way before the rainy season next month. Beyond its immediate military value, the undertaking suggests that the Iraqis intend to settle in for a long stay and are perhaps even preparing a direct communications network between Iraq and a future Arabistan...