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Seventeen years separate these two men, and that seems to be an eon in the affairs of this country. Reagan as a young man never indulged in self-pity. He fought the Depression and won, gaining strength and stature from the challenge. Mondale, as a Midwest preacher's child in those years of drought and deprivation, was scarred by the suffering. Then he heard the glorious promises of Government from his mentor, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and he never looked back...
...season would esta- blish one historic precedent long before Geraldine Ferraro added a second. But instead of savoring his electoral accomplishments, which went far beyond what most political observers thought possible a year ago, Jackson approached this week's Democratic Convention in a defiant, almost reckless mood. The preacher-politician issued a torrent of threats, recriminations and inflammatory accusations that was little short of bewildering, even for someone who thrives on confrontation. Then he proceeded to back down, at least partly, from many of them. Right to the end, Jackson left many Democrats with very little answer...
...Jackson's remarks were careless, to say the least. Jewish voters remain deeply suspicious of the Baptist Preacher because of his support of Palestinian causes, and they have not forgotten his tardy repudiation of incendiary Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan, a onetime Jackson surrogate, who characterized Judaism as "a dirty religion" only a month ago. Henry Siegman, Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress, demanded that Democratic leaders "finally repudiate" Jackson and warned that their continued association with him "can only lead to disaster...
...former head of the Reformed Church in America, and the Rev. John Bluck, a New Zealand theology professor. Castro becomes the fourth man to occupy the top W.C.C. post since the organization was established in 1948. He will succeed Philip Potter, 62, a Methodist minister from Dominica. A dynamic preacher, Potter has ardently espoused liberation theology, which finds scriptural justification for those who rebel-even violently-against oppressive social and political systems...
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...