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Jesse Helms' Senate seat is one of 33 that are at stake this year, 19 held by Republicans and 14 by Democrats. To capture control, which they lost in the Republican onslaught of 1980, the Democrats need a net gain of six seats. Notable races where the rhetoric has already heated...
...first mistake was to bicker with Mondale. Taken aback by Mondale's onslaught, Hart was defensive and churlish. Too late, he tried to clamber back on the highroad. "I have really tried very hard not to attack anyone in this race," he insisted in a local television debate two days before the primary. "Voters are fed up with this penny ante, picky business." But he could not restrain himself and fell to quibbling with Mondale over who had started the negative campaigning. Chastened by the New York landslide, Hart grimly announced, "If New York proved anything, it was that...
...planned invasion was as bold as any in a Coleco Industries video game. The strategy called for Coleco to blast its way into the home-computer market with Adam, a complete system that sold for just $600. But the Adam onslaught never really got rolling. During 1983 production problems forced Coleco to manufacture less than 20% of the 500,000 computers it had planned. Last week the firm revealed that Adam is causing a hemorrhage of cash. Coleco reported a $35 million loss for the fourth quarter of 1983, against a profit of $15.4 million during the same period...
...children and youth of America are politically mute, and for this reason have suffered the worst onslaught from the policies of the current Administration Reagan has consistently ignored and misinterpreted the problems of children...
...Finn of Out-of-Town News in Cambridge describes the onslaught as "non-stop" "All kinds [of people] are playing who have never played before," he adds...