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Striking back in an attempt to crumble Perot's support, White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater told reporters Perot was "a paranoid person who has delusions." That pop-psych diagnosis was motivated by politics, of course, but it also squared with Perot's long history of obsession with plots. In one of his half-hour commercials, the Texan revived a claim that he had been the target of five armed terrorists hired by North Vietnamese to assassinate him 20 years ago. A single guard dog ostensibly scared the gunmen off his property. Perot never reported the incident to authorities, though...
Consider first Perot's personality and temperament. It does not require a degree in psychology to recognize a world-class paranoid. Perot starts with a firm conviction of his own superior gifts and high destiny. Then, if his actual situation falls short, he looks for scapegoats. In Perot's mind, nothing that has ever retarded his many causes has been his fault. Whether it is a band of shortsighted General Motors directors, government officials callously abandoning soldiers in Southeast Asia or journalists scrutinizing his background, Perot routinely views himself as the helpless victim of dark conspiracies. Is the collective memory...
Enter Ross Perot, a paranoid hoist by his own self-regard who could nonetheless end up as Bush's secret weapon. Most observers are focusing on the state-by-state matchups -- whom Perot will hurt more in which key states, a crystal-ball exercise whose only safe conclusion at this point is that Perot hurts either Clinton or Bush or both or neither. Meanwhile, Baker & Co. believe that victory requires blowing the current campaign dynamic across the board; surgical strikes won't do. "If Clinton fractures anywhere, he will fracture everywhere," says a Bush campaign official. "Perot serves that possibility...
...executive board members, who in a nearly unprecedented emergency session voted to extend the deadline, countered that the move was fair and necessary. Second--year Law student Raul Perez, the board's administrative vice president and election commissioner, called the accusations "paranoid balderdash...
...cast Robert Redford) is a sometime merry prankster, still on the run for computer crimes he committed in the '60s; he now heads a marginal enterprise that does legalized breaking and entering designed to test corporate security systems. His associates include a defrocked cia operative (Sidney Poitier); a gentle paranoid (Dan Aykroyd) who believes the same group that killed Jack Kennedy also framed Pete Rose; a blind computer whiz (David Strathairn) whose keyboard -- and Playboy -- are in Braille; and a kid (River Phoenix) who demonstrated his personal best when he illegally improved his grades in a raid on his school...