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...touring Pope defines his policy and falls under the spell of Africa's exuberance...
...Confusing the simply antisocial with the revolutionary, Mailer develops an aesthetic whose chief temperamental characteristic is a malign machismo, still dear to those in the New Left who have fallen under Mailer's spell in adolescence or continue to confuse Che Guevara with the brassy cliche of the Westerns," she wrote. In Mailer's world, "sex is war, war is sexual," and so women are the enemy, to be treated with violence as a solution for male angst...
...voters to rank candidates. The CCA, and to a lesser extent the Independents, have created slate loyalties that allow them to dominate the powerful City Council even if others in the city elect one or two rising stars with allegiances to neither group. "This new type of voter will spell the doom of the Independent control of the City Council (currently, Independents hold a 5-4 edge over CCA members)," Vellucci predicts flatly. "It would make sense for us to be fighting condos and the CCA to be supporting them," he adds...
...Pennsylvania, Bush made effective use of a slick media campaign, including four well-received "Ask George Bush" telecasts, in which he fielded questions from live audiences and sought to spell out his differences from Reagan on key issues. In reality, those differences are few. A gentlemanly postprimary TV debate in Houston revealed almost no basic disagreements between the candidates apart from the proposed Kemp-Roth 30% tax cut, which Reagan supports and Bush opposes as foolhardy and inflationary...
...Gromyko was not at all in a conciliatory mood. Flying into Paris for two days of talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Gromyko brushed aside the European Community's standing proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe's business. Posing with the Soviet diplomat for French television cameras, Giscard appeared stern and somber...