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...Perhaps modeling his northern neighbor Gov. "Big Jim" Thompson of Illinois, Bunning mounted a platform with rolled-up shirt sleeves to state that the governor has to "butt heads" to attract industry to Kentucky. Negotiations over a debate between the two major candidates also involved the size of the podium for the candidates (Bunning...
Scenes such as the Isaacsons' execution, the demonstrations to free them (complete with Daniel and his sister. Susan, standing fear-fully at the podium with their parents lawyer), and the seemingly unwarranted descent of a swarm of FBI officials upon the Isaacson home are understandable as evocations of Daniel's emotional perspective. But if one is searching for a statement on the Rosenberg case, such scenes come off as manipulative powerplays intended to win over the audience's sympathy for the Rosenbergs/Isaacsons using emotional rather than rational or factual devices...
Instead, one diplomat after another took the podium to excoriate the Soviet destruction of Flight 007. Pierre Aubert of neutral Switzerland opened by taking oblique aim at the Soviets, saying that the most useful confidence-building measure would be "to persuade those who believe only in force, even in disrespect for human life, that they are in error." There was some doubt whether Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko would show up to face the heat. He not only showed up but droned through a standard speech about disarmament. His audience listened anxiously to hear whether Gromyko would mention the airliner...
...that he was cutting short his California holiday-first by two days, then by three-as his determination to confer personally with the National Security Council in Washington grew more urgent. Just before boarding Air Force One for the trip back to Washington, a grim Reagan mounted an outdoor podium and read an extraordinary statement. Calling the Soviet attack a "barbaric act," the President implied that it reflected baser motives than even the 1979 U.S.S.R. invasion of Afghanistan. "While events in Afghanistan and elsewhere have left few illusions about the willingness of the Soviet Union to advance its interests through...
Whenever the outgoing Prime Minister's name was mentioned from the speaker's podium, the noisy crowd of Herut loyalists erupted with cheers of "Begin, Begin." But as the long night of ballot counting passed, the name Shamir began to be heard more often. By 1:40 a.m., the decision was official. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 67, had defeated his only rival for the top party slot, Deputy Prime Minister David Levy, 45, by 436 votes to 302. The rapid sequence of events that had started with Begin's sudden announcement that he would resign seemed...