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...levels of popularity lower than any other President in the history of polling, despite the absence of any major scandal in his Administration or any international catastrophe. His restrained and at times erratic performance has won him neither personal nor ideological devotion. His political weakness has attracted a large number of challengers in the Republican Party. More important, it has drawn onto the field a reluctant Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the flawed heir of Camelot...
Reagan still claims the loyalty of about one-third of his party in state after state. The large number of Republican candidates (nine) challenging him tends to split the anti-Reagan vote and thus strengthen the front runner. Reagan, however, carries some weighty burdens. He is 68 years old. If he wins, he will be the oldest President ever elected in U.S. history. Perhaps more important, the theatrics of American politics tends to make any three-time candidate seem shopworn...
...image as a loyal party man; 85% classify him as such. He carries a reputation as an outstanding member of the U.S. Senate. But the feeling that his views are too liberal has begun to grow. A year ago, only 38% said he was too liberal, but that number has now jumped...
...original coup plan, apparently, had moved too quickly for the army and had then gone out of control with the killing of Park. At a hastily called emergency Cabinet meeting, which was also attended by a number of generals, Choi obtained backing for constitutional rule and declared himself Acting President. Chung was named Martial Law Commander at the same meeting. The two men apparently agreed to act in concert in order to assure the country that it had a legitimate interim government. But who was giving orders to whom in this uneasy tandem was unclear...
Eichner, who has finished either number one or number two for the Crimson in every meet this year, withdrew for the second time due to personal difficulties and returns home to Minnesota...