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Five months before the Iowa caucuses, the campaign remains eerily formless and wide open. A TIME poll finds that many Democrats express doubts about the party' s candidates, while George Bush has regained lost ground among Republicans. -- Ultraconservatives pummel the President. -- In Pennsylvania, a controversial search for a rape suspect touches off a civil rights flap...
Perhaps it is the immorality of the President's plan that irks the professors' consciences. Rather than view Star Wars as an attempt to render the mainland invulnerable while we pummel our adversaries we see an opportunity to protect population centers in the event of a nuclear attack. While we are not about to heap hosannas on another level of the arms race, neither are we blind to the plan's positive potentials...
...play, Evrard sees her production turn into a fiasco. When Marat is stabbed, the passions of the inmates erupt. They assault one another, pummel away at the nuns, rush at the bars which separate them from the audience and clamor for freedom. This is how the mob acts when it rises up in revolution. We are all maniacs. Weiss seems to say, and society is our asylum...
...Pummel your sword limp, useless...
Mondale seemed back on course after a harrowing March, but to get there he had to steer a low road. His aides say that their candidate will continue to pummel Hart "until we beat him." They realize that the strategy could suddenly turn sour, but they also recall that, when Mondale was on the high road, he began to lose, and badly. Taking the offensive helps Mondale conceal a fundamental weakness in his campaign: to many voters, the old-line Democratic Party that he stands for has no driving theme. At the same time, Mondale's verbal jabs...