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...from other Western nations, it may find it harder to ignore critics at home. All of the Democratic candidates for President have talked about acid rain in their campaigns. Additional pressure on the White House came last week when six northeastern states-New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island-brought suit in Federal District Court in Washington to force the EPA to enact tougher restrictions on sulfur-dioxide emissions...
...split decision. Hart won seven states, Mondale six; "uncommitted" swept Hawaii, South Carolina and three Kentucky counties that caucused in advance of the rest of the state. An impartial political referee would probably award the match to Hart on points. He won states large (Florida, Massachusetts) and small (Rhode Island), and some where his campaign barely existed at the beginning of March (Washington, Nevada). He proved that his candidacy is not a flashy fad but a national movement...
Still, the pundits seemed to agree on several criteria that may have appeared mysterious to the ordinary viewer. Hart, for example, was "expected" to win Massachusetts, according to all three networks, the implication being that his big victory therefore counted for less. Apparently he was also "expected" to win Rhode Island, a unionized and traditionally Democratic state that would seem to have been Mondale territory. Thus, to the pundits, Hart's major victory was in Florida, although his margin there was the narrowest in his three primary triumphs. In analyzing Mondale, the standards may have been a little more...
...recognition of such arguments, a number of newspapers and TV and radio stations decided, before the trial began, not to carry the name of the alleged victim. But Rhode Island's Colony Communications, which is supplying video coverage to CNN and to New Bedford-area cable channels, aired the name because, an executive said, the company lacked the technical ability to bleep it out when it arose in testimony. As a result, the Fall River Herald-News and the Providence Journal and Bulletin in Rhode Island published it. Said the Providence papers' Executive Editor, Charles Hauser: "Once...
...come drizzle, rain and downpour, the Laxwomen staved off Mother Nature and a vastly outclassed University of Rhode Island squad, 12-3, before a handful of crazy spectators...