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Divestment activists retort that however much American corporations do to improve the liver of the fewer than I percent of the country's Black workers they employ, they contribute directly to the apartheid state. American companies, they say, sell the white minority regime the vehicles, fuel and electronic equipment it needs to enforce apauheid...
...expected and understandable retort-by Koppel went something like this: "But what if such weapons were to be used for aggresive purpose as the U.S. government believes is the case with your government? After all, a tremendous arms buildup has been taking shape in Nicaragua for quite some time...
Reagan responded to one loud out break with a retort that has served him well on the trail. "There's one particular group here, and if they keep on yelling. I'm going to raise their taxes," Reagan quipped after his claim that he had cut taxes equally for all Americans was greeted with some jeers...
...programs "suffered considerably under this Administration's first budget cuts," some of which were later restored. But in a debate that was weighed down, if anything, by too many statistics, Ferraro failed in this instance to back her rebuttal with numbers. Thus Bush was able to retort: "Spending for food stamps is way, way up under the Reagan Administration ... and I am not going to be found wrong on that." In fact, fewer children can be immunized with federal funds in 1984 than in 1981. As for food stamps, federal spending in 1984 was only slightly above...
Despite that polished performance, Ferraro has drawbacks. Her lack of national experience, especially in foreign policy, offers a target to Republicans, who will contrast it with the impressive résumé of Vice President George Bush. Ferraro's supporters retort that the foreign policy credentials of such Republican choices as William Miller in 1964 and Spiro Agnew in 1968 were next to invisible...