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...Hampshire campaign of Eugene McCarthy. Seeing a chance to "change the world, rearrange the world" and drive Lyndon Johnson back to the ranch, hundreds of student supporters invaded the state. Huntley-Brinkley brought Vietnam home every night in living color, and the McCarthy kids knocked on doorfronts to remind New Hampshire that now was the chance to stop it. The Johnson write-in effort functioned in a stupor; McCarthy's army--which the Senator bemusedly termed "the government-in-exile"--pulsed with energy. "Those people were angry," remembered Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign...
...restrained by his adamant opposition to the Camp David accords and by his dependence on Soviet military supplies. For a variety of reasons, Syria has rarely been so isolated within the Arab world as it is today. Thus another reason for Assad's troop decision was to remind other Arabs and the world at large that Damascus still holds the match to Lebanon, potentially the most dangerous fuse in the Middle East...
...need somebody to speak for the general public, to give them a chance to be heard in Washington," Cox said yesterday, adding, "Common Cause serves to remind national decision-makers that everyone must be heard if the whole country is to prosper...
...leader was recovering "normally" and that he had risen from his hospital bed to cast his own vote in the election. Khomeini issued a recorded get-out-the-vote message stressing that "my illness must not hamper anyone from effective participation in the election." He did not need to remind anyone that whoever wins the presidency, Iran's new constitution gives Khomeini effective power to remove...
...question, Karmal boorishly denounced him as a representative of British imperialism. "You invaded us three times and you got a rightful and deserved answer from the people of Afghanistan," he growled at the Briton, to the approving guffaws of Soviet embassy diplomats. No Western correspondent bothered to remind them that back in Moscow, readers of the Soviet press would have had a hard time figuring out that there were any Russian troops in Afghanistan...