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Recent public opinion polls show Dukakis closing fast on Bush in several key states including California, a must-win state where Dukakis aides said an 11-point Bush lead a week ago has shrunk to a virtual...
...Dukakis' Eastern anchor, as even Republicans privately concede. But his advantage has shrunk, tempting Bush strategists to plan the kind of mischief they have perpetrated in Massachusetts. "We're going to put enough into New York to make Dukakis come back to hold us off," promises deputy campaign manager Rich Bond. Sure enough, Dukakis was scheduled to come to the Empire State on Columbus Day. Dukakis will also have to devote more time to Pennsylvania, which on paper seemed promising for the Democrats this year. Now it has become open country...
...ending the killing cycles. Despite the violence and unrelenting tension with Ulster's Protestant majority, daily life for Northern Ireland's Catholics has improved in some respects. Thanks to a $2 billion investment in public housing, for example, the proportion of Belfast dwellings judged unfit for human habitation has shrunk from 25% in 1974 to 10% today. The main beneficiaries have been Catholic residents. Building on that, British and Irish moderates hope, will eventually lead the Catholic community to turn against the gunmen. "The only people who can beat the I.R.A.," said Father Denis Faul, "are the little women...
...acceptance speech on Thursday. By breeding and association, he is part of the Establishment that Reagan challenged in 1976 and defeated in 1980. But enough of Reagan's original agenda has been adopted to slake the most urgent thirsts of the right wing. The income-tax monster has been shrunk, the Democratic Congress is leery of huge new programs, the Viet Nam syndrome no longer paralyzes American foreign policy, and the federal judiciary has been Reaganized. "In this environment," says Burton Pines of the Heritage Foundation, "it's harder than it was eight, ten years ago to find conservatives with...
...issue market permits to 50 local fruit growers; now millions of dollars worth of plums are rotting on the trees. Money is growing scarce, especially in Gaza, as the Israelis impose punitive fines and present confiscatory bills for dwindling services. Merchants in the West Bank say their income has shrunk by 60%. Savings are vanishing. To punish communities where there has been rioting, the Israeli authorities sever telephone lines, cut off electricity, curtail food shipments and restrict travel...