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...weeks later Mondale got his biggest boost: Ted Kennedy telephoned to say that he was abandoning the race. Mondale's confidence soared. He began to confront political operators directly, warning them that there was no more room to stall, challenging them in a way he had never done before. When some held out, the suddenly combative Mondale took it personally and told them...
...Lebanese army assigned to the border area. Israel is also asking for the right to enter Lebanon at any time to conduct searches and make arrests. The U.S. and Lebanon have rejected both ideas as a mockery of Lebanese sovereignty. Some U.S. officials believe that Israel will stall on the Lebanon negotiations as long as there is a chance Hussein will join any peace talks. If Hussein refuses, they would then be able to blame the failure of the Reagan initiative on Jordan...
Coming only weeks after President Reynaldo Bignone promised to hold general elections next October, the strike threw the beleaguered country into an economic stall it could ill afford. Seven years after the military overthrew the regime of Isabel Martinez de Perdón, the call for elections to form a civilian government was effectively an admission that the generals have failed to bring order to the nation's chaotic political life. Their repressive rule has left Argentina with economic disaster, international notoriety for the scale of its human rights violations and national disgrace in the aftermath of last year...
North Carolina State had taken time out with 44-seconds remaining and went into a stall in an effort to get the last shot in regulation...
Most of the stall members interviewed afterward said they found the lecture worth while...