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Four others -- Jack Kemp, Pete du Pont, Pat Robertson and Alexander Haig -- have spoken out against the deal, and Bob Dole has expressed only lukewarm support. Their disapproval is all the more surprising since Republican voters overwhelmingly favor it. A CBS/New York Times poll recently reported that 62% of adult Americans, including 63% of Republicans, like the treaty. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll surveyed probable voters in Iowa and New Hampshire and found support for the INF accord among 77% of Republicans in Iowa and 74% in New Hampshire...
...would so many G.O.P. candidates risk alienating their party's voters on a crucial issue? Because opposition to the INF treaty appeals to the hard-core conservatives, and long-shot candidates Kemp, du Pont and Robertson need their support to stay in the race. Trailing far behind Bush and Dole in name recognition, money, organization, poll support and credibility, these "flanking" candidates have little chance unless one of them becomes the sole darling of the G.O.P.'s right wing. Du Pont, a onetime moderate who is now a born-again right-winger, got a boost in this direction last week...
...Soviet Union," he declared, "until we force them to comply with previous agreements." While Kemp called for unrealistically stringent verification procedures, Robertson's conditions for signing an arms accord seemed even more fanciful: he glibly recommended "a rollback, a decolonization, if you will, of the Soviet empire." Du Pont was a bit more temperate. Though he said the INF deal was a "bad treaty," his main concern is to forestall Soviet attempts to block the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...lost among the many personal queriesthat Kalb makes. On foreign policy last month,Dukakis was forced to admit he has never read anyof the major popular books on the Soviet Union.Simon yesterday called "Black Boy" by RichardWright his favorite book and in a previousinterview Republican candidate Pierre du Pont IVdefended his right to call himself "Pete...
Hoping to provoke a little candor among the six Republican presidential candidates on his television show, William F. Buckley Jr. asked Pierre du Pont why he would be a better choice than Jack Kemp. As du Pont began to answer with practiced evasion, Bob Dole broke in: "You're looking at me. Kemp's over there." "Yeah," replied du Pont evenly, "but the camera's behind you." Television, once the terror of politicians because it revealed character, now merely shows their carefully fashioned synthetic facades...