Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN WALTER F. Mondale finally picks his running mate, one hopes this week, he will bring to a merciful close one of the saddest charades in recent political memory. Never before has a politician on the brink of such high office debased himself more before his supporters...
...Shamie's a salesman he'll tell you that him-self." Said State Rep. Forrester A. Clark, Jr. '58 (R-Hamilton). "He has a very open style he's an easy-to-communicate-with person. Richardson tends to be a little more distant than the average politician; he never tries to be the hail-fellow-well...
What does Jesse Jackson want? The question gnaws at the Democrats as they try to fathom the preacher-politician's shifting moods, sometimes contradictory rhetoric and flamboyant gestures-like his trip this week to Cuba and Central America. Interpreting Jackson has become a kind of political pastime, as compelling and mysterious as predicting the next move by the Politburo...
...been shortchanged by party rules, since he won 21% of the popular vote but only 8% of the delegates (see following story). Jackson mocked the vice-presidential screening process as a "p.r. parade of personalities," then belittled Mondale by saying that Hubert Humphrey was the "last significant politician out of the St. Paul-Minneapolis" area. Mondale brushed off the insults, yet he is in an awkward position. If he bows to Jackson, he offends other supporters, particularly Jews, who are deeply suspicious of Jackson. If he resists, he risks losing Jackson's valuable appeal to black voters...
Every evening, during the rounds of diwaniyas, a sort of casual salon of talk and coffee sipping that begins in the late evening, the Kuwaitis ponder their uncertain future. Says one politician: "We fear that Kuwait's freedom will be the victim of these attacks on our tankers." But it is more than just Kuwaiti freedom that is at stake. It is Kuwait itself. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Kuwait and Johanna McGeary/Washington