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...term incumbent Sen. Patrick Leahy won re-election. In a three-way gubernatorial race, incumbent Democrat Madeleine Kunin beat Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Price and Burlington's Socialist mayor, Bernie Sanders, but did not earn the majority needed to keep the race from the state legislature...
...blocking a deal that Gorbachev said could have constituted a "turning point in world history." In his TV speech the Soviet leader at times took a condescending, almost derisive tone toward Reagan, portraying the President as a confused leader "demonstrating his complete ignorance and misunderstanding of . . . the socialist world." But Gorbachev was as insistent as any Reaganaut in denying that the summit had failed. Said Gorbachev: "The work that went on during the meeting will not be wasted . . . We have cleared the path toward developing further struggle for peace and disarmament...
...have sought assistance everywhere. We found it in some places and not in others. No country in the West would give us weapons, so we went to the Soviet Union. They agreed to give us weapons, and we accepted them. I have gone up and down the socialist countries, and not once has any of them tried to tell us what to do. African countries also gave us weapons, and we accepted them. Where else could we have gone? We also get tremendous assistance from the Nordic countries -- as much as, if not more than, from the socialist countries...
...Conservative daily Le Figaro dismissed the announcement as "mere twaddle." Jean-Claude Gaudin, a leader of the majority, grumbled, "The more Mitterrand says no, the more likely it is yes." A more probable assessment was offered by Jean-Jack Queyranne of the President's Socialist Party: "Mitterrand's brief remark served as a pointed reminder that he is still President -- and master of the game...
...crisis rallied popular support behind the government. Approval ratings for both the neo-Gaullist Chirac and Socialist President Francois Mitterrand jumped in opinion polls. Inevitably, though, the ongoing tension spurred some politicking. Nearly 2,000 protesters showed up when the National Front, the far-rightist party led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, defied a government ban by staging a noisy rally in the Place de l'Opera. Le Pen criticized the government for its "nonchalant" attitude toward terrorism...