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When Dolan goes after Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Donald Riegle of Michigan, and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio in 1982, he will once again trundle out his Panama Canal Treaty posters, as he did this year in "targeting" Frank Church of Idaho. The young strategist defends his ploy: "That vote was a symbol of surrender, a recognition that American is not the number-one power in the world. American voters don't want to hear that. They reject that...
...campaign, claims to have signed up 72,000 ministers and 4 million lay members, and angered liberals, as well as a number of evangelicals, by arguing that Christians should not only fight for prayers in schools and against abortions, but should also actively oppose such measures as the Panama Canal treaties and SALT...
...made Amos famous, but it has made his bakery a $250 million-a-year enterprise in fewer than six years. And now the Smithsonian Institution has added some frosting by representing Amos in its business Americana collection. In a Washington, D.C., ceremony, Amos formally gave the Smithsonian his trademark Panama hat and embroidered shirt, thus becoming the first entrepreneur to lose his shirt because he was in the chips...
Conservatives in the Senate similarly talked about preventing Tennessee's Howard Baker, the current minority leader, from becoming majority leader in the new Senate. A major complaint against Baker: he voted for the Panama Canal treaties. But Nevada's Paul Laxalt, overnight one of Washington's most powerful men, promptly squelched that minirebellion...
...apples and not always dazzling one-liners, Symms put steady pressure on his opponent, trying to smoke him out as a snake-in-the-grass liberal in a state where conservatives abound. Symms focused his attack on Church's dovishness on foreign affairs, his support of the Panama Canal treaties and his occasional kindly remarks about Fidel Castro. Said Symms: "I say we must keep our commitments to our friends. Church favors throwing our friends to the alligators and hopes they'll eat us last." Stressing that he was conducting a "hometown campaign," Symms implied that his opponent...