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...this campaign also underlines the growing attention to the personality and character of the vice presidential nominee. Mondale, a protege of Hubert Humphrey, was nominated in 1976 primarily because of his strong ties to the liberal side of the Democratic party and his widespread support in the Midwest and Northeast. But in the 1980 campaign his appeal seems to be based at least equally on his personal integrity and low-key style. An easy-going politician who is respected by liberals and neo-conservatives alike, Mondale has to a degree counterbalanced Carter's aloof and sometimes caustic personality...
...people, thrilled by any show of enthusiasm for the president from his former rival, have asked Kennedy to campaign most heavily in the areas where he did well in the primaries. One Carter campaign official predicts that Kennedy's active support will make a big difference in California, the Northeast, and major cities, and with labor, Blacks, and other minorities. While on the campaign trail for the president, Kennedy refrains from opening old wounds by "concentrating on those areas of policy in which he and Carter are in substantial agreement," Drayne says...
...designed to drive out the civilian defenders who have backed up the Iranian armed forces with guerrilla operations. The bombardment, in fact, set off a mass exodus from the Khorramshahr-Abadan area. More than 300,000 people sought refuge in the small town of Shadegan, 20 miles to the northeast. Late in the week, Iraqi forces captured Abadan's radio station, which is almost two miles outside the city, but it was not immediately clear whether the Iraqis would choose to lay a prolonged siege around the burning city and thus spare themselves infantry casualties, or assault it directly...
Just 60 miles from Kabul, in fact, in the Ghorband Valley leading to the city of Bamiyan (pop. 47,000), seesaw battles between Soviet troops and bands of insurgents are said to have caused heavy casualties on both sides. In the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, the Soviets have apparently given up their attempt to dislodge the fierce mujahidin (Islamic warriors) from their strongholds. Similarly, Soviet troops have been unsuccessful in efforts to reimpose order on the lawless city of Herat in the northwest, and have only managed to maintain a tenuous and frequently interrupted hold on Kandahar...
...decline has been sharpest in the Northeast and Midwest. Says Thomas Klutznick, son of Commerce Secretary Philip Klutznick and head of a development subsidiary of the Aetna Life & Casualty insurance company: "In the Chicago area, growth is static. The demand for shopping centers has tapered off." Many regions have simply become saturated with shopping malls. And because of higher gasoline prices, people now plan buying expeditions more carefully. Thus they make fewer shopping trips, especially to outlying malls...