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...little in common, and often they don't seem to like each other much. But Helmut Kohl and his Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, have depended on one another for the success of their unification dream. If Kohl played the hearty salesman for German unity, Genscher was the quiet strategist. For years the elf-faced minister has been arguing that Mikhail Gorbachev truly wants peace and that the West should seize this moment to end the division of Europe...
...Ailes, the Republican * mudmeister, casually claimed that young Cuomo might soon have a Neil Bush sort of problem with S&L investigators. That prompted a phone call from Andrew and a private apology for what Ailes conceded was a cheap shot. Then on ABC's Nightline last week, Republican strategist Ed Rollins said, "Mario Cuomo's son was involved" in the spreading S&L disaster. In fact, there is little basis, other than pure politics, for this accusation. Andrew's only connection is that he served as an attorney for a group of shareholders trying to take over a struggling...
Already this year three managers have been asked to seek challenges elsewhere in the private sector. And just last Friday master strategist Whitey Herzog suddenly quit after eleven years as skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals. Earlier in the season Davey Johnson, who led the New York Mets to a World Championship in 1986, was terminated despite a career winning percentage of .593. Bucky Dent was the latest casualty of the mercurial reign of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who must believe that God loves Yankee managers since he made so many of them. And in Atlanta's answer...
...glaring symptom of a distressing change in American politics over the past decade: the way that pit-bull negative ads have led to simplistic, visceral posturing by candidates at the expense of more substantive approaches to real problems. "It's a good issue to define your opponent," said Republican strategist Ed Rollins. "If your opponent is for flag burning, he's got to go through a very sophisticated explanation...
North Carolina primary voters made history last week by selecting Harvey Gantt as the first black ever nominated for the U.S. Senate by the Democratic Party in any state. But to Carter Wrenn, a top strategist for Republican Jesse Helms, Gantt's nomination merely confirmed that the Tarheel State remains under siege. Charged Wrenn: "What you have opposing Helms is another coalition of homosexuals and artists and pacifists and every other left-wing group...