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...minute address, interrupted some three dozen times by applause, was upbeat, inspirational and politically calculating. While emphasizing the need for bipartisanship, it was carefully worded to shore up Reagan's points of vulnerability and pre-empt Democratic issues. In classic campaign style, the speech contained something for everyone: for conservatives, a pitch for school prayer; for liberals, a pledge of stepped-up attempts to fight environmental pollution; for hawks, expressions of pride in strengthened military forces; for doves, a repetition of a standard line, this time ostensibly addressed to the people of the Soviet Union, that "a nuclear war cannot...
Republican Senate Caucus Chairman Ken Maddy observed that the new proposals "will not placate the Democrats, but they do pre-empt them." Although his 1984-85 budget seems sure to pass, Deukmejian faces skirmishes down the road over his penny-pinching attitude toward entitlement programs. Senate Democratic Leader David Roberti grumbles, "The Governor hasn't shown much movement for the elderly and the poor...
...ended the annual deadly rite of the rainy season. Every year, before the heavy summer storms, the South Africans launch punishing raids into southern Angola to pre-empt attacks by the black nationalist guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). And every year, once the rains provide them with foliage cover and vital water supplies, the rebels cross the border into northern Namibia, hoping to bring an end to South Africa's 17-year control of that nation. This year, for the first time. South African troops came into direct confrontation with those of Marxist...
...Kicking would just pre-empt those plans," he says...
Indeed, the main fear hanging over the election was the possibility that the country's strongly franquista military leadership would pre-empt the leftist victory by force. One aborted coup plot had been uncovered early last month, and rumors of other such attempts abounded throughout the campaign. Some analysts continued to believe that army hard-liners might try to stage an uprising during the delicate transition period by to the formation of a Socialist government next month...