Word: retreated
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...that he has a better chance than Mondale of beating Reagan. But after last week's rebuffs, Hart may have little chance of winning over the party faithful in San Francisco. On Thursday, when he left Texas to campaign in Ohio and Louisiana, it seemed more like a retreat than a strategy. Gibed Mondale: "He ought to stick around and get his delegates the old-fashioned way like I do-I earn them." As he closed in on the prize, Walter Mondale, once dismissed as lacking the fire and stamina for a presidential campaign, could make that claim with...
Several factors caused the Administration to retreat from its antiwilderness position. Republicans up for re-election this fall became worried about projecting the wrong image. More important, developers began to apply pressure for a compromise. In a case involving California forests, a federal court ruled that nonwilderness designations had been based on an inadequate Government study. This allowed environmentalists to make a legal challenge of any plan to hand over federal lands for economic exploitation...
...senate race last week, he screwed up Elizabethan style, with nobody to blame but himself. That's why in the past week and a half the local press has done nothing but rain down moralistic criticism--swatting Markey's hand and swiping his but at every opportunity. "Markey's Retreat," is the title of this week's Phoenix meditation, in which Markey is condemned as a "suitor scorned--actually not even scorned, but merely afraid of being scorned..." The Boston Herald's headline let the survivors speak: "Candidates Blast 'Markey the Wimp.'" "Markey's meanderings," the Globe editorialized, revealed that...
...faze Pastora, since he never believed he could hold on to the territory indefinitely. The initial victory made his point. "You don't think I'm so stupid as to stay there and wait for them [the Sandinista attackers], do you?" Pastora said last week after his retreat...
...official he could find a good piece of his mind. A few days later, the journalists were called back to Havana. This time Cuba's mercurial leader was in a more obliging mood, allowing Adams to photograph him during a duck hunt (he bagged 76) at his country retreat outside Havana. "I heard you had a nasty temper," Castro said to the photographer at dinner later. "Why haven't I seen it?" Replied Adams: "Because now I've got the pictures." -By Guy D. Garcia