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...consider this a radical position, but recent reactions to the slogan have shown that many others do. In addition to the usual skepticism, responses have run the gamut from slight amusement to overt hostility...
Central America. Hart's policy can basically be summed up by an antiwar slogan from the 1960s: "Out Now." He calls for the "immediate withdrawal" of all troops from the region, and he would simply cu off U.S. military aid to El Salvador unti all death-squad activity ceased. Mondale would link U.S. aid to El Salvador to progress on land reform and an end to the death squads. He would continue the U.S. efforts to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Salvadoran rebels, but unlike President Reagan, he would not back the contras against...
Mondale has struck fear in the Hart camp by hiring Media Consultant David Garth. Mondale's regular media man, Roy Spence, came up with the worst slogan of the campaign, declaring before New Hampshire that Mondale "dares to be cautious." Garth is known as a tough New York street fighter. "We expect a vicious, negative series of attacks," says Hart Deputy Campaign Chairman David Landau...
...popularity of the Wendy's slogan is spawning a mini-industry. Michael Stone, president of New York City's Hamilton Projects, Wendy's exclusive licensing agent, estimates that sales of "Where's the beef?" products may reach $30 million by the end of the year. Items bearing the question or Clara Feller's picture will eventually include T shirts, a record album, kitchen utensils, greeting cards, baseball caps, mugs, wastebaskets, dolls (one of which asks the question), board games, three-ring binders and stadium cushions. Says Stone: "Manufacturers have been calling nonstop to get licenses...
Success has brought some troubles for Wendy's. One company wanted to put out a line of male underwear with the slogan "Here's the buns, where's the beef?" Said Stone: "That was a no." Bootleggers are already peddling unauthorized beef byproducts. A T-shirt company sold items to J.C. Penney, and another firm tried to peddle unlicensed refrigerator magnets, before Wendy's forced them both to stop...