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That blunt question from a Nashville high school student to the President of the U.S. last week aptly summed up the conundrum of Jimmy Carter's floundering campaign. From the outset, the President and his advisers had meant to make Ronald Reagan the man the issue in the race. Instead, with only three weeks to go, it was Carter who was the issue, and he had only himself to blame. Time and again, Carter's strident personal attacks had crossed the line of propriety for a presidential campaign. When he did it again last week, charging that Reagan...
Particularly at the outset, the war was largely shut off from the outside world, which could only guess at the ferocity of battle by communiques issued by both sides. By the fifth day, for instance, the Iraqis claimed to have shot down no fewer than 158 Iranian planes, about as many, experts figured, as the Iranians would have been able to get into the air. Propaganda was rife on either side. Iraqi television carried bulletins on the fighting, with commentaries on what "our heroic forces" had done to "the racist Persian enemy." The Iranian media talked of Saddam Hussein...
...like Jeannette, Mazursky's most intriguing yet incomplete character, at the outset. She flirts her way into our hearts in Washington Square Park. Soon, however, we realize that she's involved in her relationships with Willie and Phil only because they make her feel good. Unthinking and selfish, she doesn't make us care...
Baker said she thought Droney might have "been trapped into making a couple of responses, but I believe he was from the outset looking for a way to proffer a deal...
Baker said she thought Droney might have "been trapped into making a couple of responses, but I believe he was from the outset looking for a way to proffer a deal...