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When Arizona Congressman Morris Udall was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, a Secret Service agent advised him not to visit a crowded fraternal hall in Wisconsin. A patron had told the agent that there was a man at the bar carrying a concealed pistol. Recalled Udall: "I went ahead, but I looked into every face and wondered, 'Is this going to be the one?' " Udall told this story not as an example of courage-or foolhardiness-but to illustrate how little effect the danger of assassination has had on presidential candidates' behavior, even after...
...only because he lost two brothers to assassins. Says Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, state director of mental health in Michigan: ''The same charisma in Ted Kennedy that stirs some people to the good, stirs other people to the bad.'' In September, Jimmy Carter ordered the Secret Service to guard Kennedy. They now watch over him around the clock, three shifts of five or six agents each, all identified by a lapel button and an earplug linked to a walkie-talkie. When traveling, Kennedy is usually accompanied by Aide Lawrence Horowitz, who is a licensed physician...
...Secret Service agents go over Kennedy's schedule ahead of time and suggest ways to make his public appearances less dangerous. However, the candidate makes the final decisions. Says a Secret Service official: ''If it were left to us, we would put these guys behind bulletproof shields all the time. We are trying to get maximum security, and they are trying to get maximum exposure.'' George Wallace used to make speeches from behind such a shield; he was shot while walking through a parking...
...this campaign, Byrd has prepared himself extensively. He says that he has exhaustively studied the seven-year history of the SALT II negotiations and has read every line of the proposed treaty, a 209-page secret report about the ability of the U.S. to monitor Soviet compliance with SALT, and transcripts of the three Senate committees that have been hearing testimony on the pact. He has also discussed SALT's details and geopolitical significance with, among others, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, heads of several NATO countries, and, during a special summer visit to the Soviet Union, Communist...
...Shah first displayed symptoms of lymphoma about six yearsago-a fact that was long kept secret in ''the best interests'' of Iran, explained a spokesman...