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...than Reagan's; stops are generally set for only a week or two in advance. He expects to travel just two or three days a week, holding just one major event a day -appearances timed for maximum free TV news coverage. To cut costs, he intends to avoid overnight trips as much as possible and has asked campaign aides to double up in hotels or stay with friends while on trips...
...against the border markers. "We don't know who they are," says a local butcher, "but our hearts go out to them anyway. Don't forget, we are all Germans, after all." The wreaths are always gone the next day. East German patrols have scooped them up overnight and destroyed them...
...party line for women disturbed by this, Reyes says, is that one must wait, that revolutions--particularly personal ones--don't occur overnight, and that you should forgive men who cling to pre-revolutionary notions, Several former comandantes interviewed in Managua, Leon, Grenada and Masaya seemed willing to wait for this internal change to occur within their macho men. "After all," says one, "it's not their fault they were brought up a certain way. You've got to be patient--they're trying hard." But there were just as many whose patience was running out, who felt "we changed...
...stems, on the one hand, from the blind radicalism of our youths. They are revolutionary idealists out to put everything right overnight. On the other hand, the main culprit is the Tudeh (Communist) Party, which, at the bidding of Moscow, drives the young generation to political sabotage. The Tudeh has more than 50 years of experience in serving the Soviet Union as a trusted fifth column. And it is doing an excellent job today...
...overnight victory. In 1900 Suffragist Elizabeth Cohen was the only woman delegate at the Democratic Convention. By 1968 the number of women delegates had risen to only...