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...into a political gain," says a politician from Glenn's home state. "It is now clear they can't do that." Americans are indeed eager to see Hero Glenn, but once the crowds gather, they are seldom won over. At the Iowa State Fairgrounds, he wanted to shorten his 25-minute prepared speech, but his extemporaneous rambling actually added twelve minutes. Instead of consoling or rousing angry steelworkers at a plant in Chicago, Glenn disappointingly told them that he did not know the particulars of their factory's planned shutdown...
...Shorten from about seven minutes to 20 seconds the time required for an identity check of a suspect. The computer identifies, dates and describes every contact the Harvard Police have recorded and can provide a printout upon request...
Peiping's massive gates swung open and through them General Fu ("I will defend this city to the last!") marched 100,000 troops for "reorganization." At Peiping, Nationalists and Communists signed an agreement designed to "shorten the civil war, satisfy a public desire for peace and . . . prevent the vitality of the country from sinking any further." The agreement did not mention "surrender...
...move will shorten supply lines and make the Israeli forces less vulnerable to attack. But there are political advantages too. A partial withdrawal, Begin supporters could argue, is better than no withdrawal. Since the end of the war in Lebanon, 155 Israelis have died in the country and 2,600 have been injured. As a result, the continuing Israeli presence has eroded Begin's domestic support. In a poll published last week in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, only 30.9% named Begin as the person best suited to be Prime Minister, a sharp decline from 45% six weeks...
Ironically, the race for the Democratic nomination has moved into high gear so quickly partly because of an effort to shorten the political season. Last year the party decided to give the states only four months, instead of five, to choose delegates to the Democratic Convention, and as a result many primaries and caucuses were moved up. In the past two elections, candidates had a month after the Iowa caucuses to regroup for the New Hampshire primary. But in 1984 New Hampshire follows Iowa by a week, and a week after that at least a dozen more states-the number...