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...front runners, last Monday's schedules were typically tough. Mondale awoke at dawn in Wilkes-Barre and toured a dress factory. He flew to Erie for a runway press conference, then to Pittsburgh for another runway press conference. In Harrisburg, Mondale waited as usual for the press to shuffle out of the 727 ("How many more?" he croaked as the reporters filed by), so that the TV news cameramen could get a clear shot of him disembarking. For the 100 supporters gathered on the tarmac, he recited his routine speech, then climbed back up the ramp. On to Philadelphia...
...engines of my jet were already turning when Costa Mendez arrived. He drew an envelope from his pocket, advising me to open it after I was airborne. As the wheels lifted off the runway, I read Costa Méndez's words: "It is absolutely essential and conditio sine qua non that negotiations will have to conclude with a result on Dec. 31, 1982. This result must include a recognition of Argentine sovereignty over the islands." Once again, in an exercise of bad faith unique in my experience as a negotiator, the Argentines had gone back on their word...
...slow dancing. She was also oddly restless, moving Hart and his adopted sister Nancy from one cheap rented house to another, while Husband Carl drifted from job to job. For young Gary, worldly pleasure meant driving to the town airport on a double date and dancing on the empty runway to the car radio...
That may be so, say the civil libertarians, but it is irrelevant. Government has no business regulating morality. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of expression, and though you may prefer not to express yourself by dancing naked on a runway in a bar, some people do, and you have no business stopping them...
...have any business trying to stop those who like to sit by the runway and imbibe this form of expression. It may not be Swan Lake, but the First Amendment does not hinge on judgments of artistic merit or even redeeming value...