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...sought, and received from CBS and NBC, free time to reply to Reagan's speech. The choice fell on Michigan Senator Donald Riegle, who is little known nationally. In a hastily prepared 7-min. talk following Reagan's 23-min. address, Riegle derided the President's plea that the nation "stay on course." Asked Riegle: "If you live from paycheck to paycheck, do you feel more secure about your job? If you own a small business, are you feeling more secure? What kind of course is this?" However, like other Democratic spokesmen in recent months, Riegle...
...vote for another dollar, John Winthrop Sears '52, the Republican candidate for governor, decided to take some time off from the campaign last Wednesday night. Speaking in a Kennedy School classroom-organizers feared embarrassingly low attendance and moved the event out of the larger Forum--Sears scrapped his standard plea for votes and talked instead of the frustrations of running for governor...
...Douglas Fraser. Fraser, who under the terms of the 1979 deal became a member of Chrysler's board of directors, labored vigorously to persuade workers that the company was still shaky and needed more relief in labor costs. With almost 40,000 Chrysler assemblers on layoff, that job-saving plea should have made sense to the men and women still at work...
More than any other group, Jews ought to be sympathetic to the Palestinian plea for a homeland. The Palestinians do not want to be scattered over the Middle East any more than the Jews wanted to remain dispersed throughout Europe...
Jackson drives all of this home--the emotion and the music and the passion--with the devastating "Slow Song." Singing a slow and impassioned plea to a nightclub disc jockey to "play us a slow song," he decries those who bluntly destroy the heart and soul of music with their harsh, indelicate approach. "Am I the only one," he asks...