Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart cannot win enough delegates to take the nomination on the first round. Even in a best-case scenario-doubling his 886 delegates-he falls short. His aim instead is to deny a first-round victory to Mondale. At the convention, Hart then hopes to win over uncommitted delegates, woo others away from Mondale, and get still other Mondale delegates thrown out. "It's now a three-ring circus," says Caddell. "The primaries, the delegate battle, and the rules and credentials fights." Hart claims that some 500 Mondale delegates should be disqualified because they were chosen with the help...
...guerrillas, they will try to assassinate U.S. advisers based at San Miguel and La Unión. The rebels say they have trained a hit squad in Morazán department to infiltrate the Salvadoran army and kill key officers as well as their U.S. instructors. Another scenario calls for the insurgents to concentrate on two or three spectacular attacks that would get front-page headlines in the U.S. The guerrillas obviously have decided that last Sunday's election is not the only one that matters...
...Reagan's view, the scenario for World War III would become more like an arcade video game and less like a prime-time apocalypse. Instead of mushroom clouds springing up from charred landscapes and families being vaporized in their backyards or dying slow deaths from radiation sickness, the imagery would feature unmanned enemy projectiles being zapped and disintegrating high above the earth; the planet and its population would remain out of harm...
...This scenario will hold unless voters and the media do not fall in line with Reagans double talk with the same equanimity with which they accepted the Grenada invasion...
...Harvard stereotypes will go over big on the network TV, where The Gulf Scenario seems-destined to land. What will translate even more easily is the remarkable variety of deaths that Bulliet's characters encounter. A sampling...