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...colorful Helms, 62, wields highly charged oratory as a nationwide clarion for the right. "The Soviets are out for blood everywhere in the world," he says on the stump. His invective is peppered with humor: "I was standing on the Capitol steps when an empty cab pulled up and Walter Mondale got out. I even saw Ted Kennedy with his hands in his own pocket...
...debacle in Lebanon and the icy state of relations with the Soviet Union, the mining episode has revived an image of Reagan as both trigger-happy and inept in foreign policy. That is just the image the Democrats intend to build up. Cried Walter Mondale on the stump last week: "Ronald Reagan's misguided and counterproductive policies in Central America are widening, militarizing and Americanizing the conflicts, and it's gotten worse every day. For months, I've predicted that if Mr. Reagan continues this blundering course, ultimately American troops could well be fighting in Central America...
...want to be the conscience of the Democratic Party," he often says on the stump. Jackson has fashioned himself the logical heir to generations of civil rights activists, including the venerable Martin Luther King Jr. In Harlem, Jackson told cheering crowds that his showing in the New York primary would represent the resurrection 16 years after King's crucifixion...
...unseemly clashes cheerfully tolerated by CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, who had presided over a slugfest a week earlier in New York. At that debate, the candidates sat around a small table and took turns tattooing each other. In Pittsburgh, they sat behind lecterns and politely exchanged paragraphs of their stump speeches. Even when the time came to question one another, they tossed softballs. (Mondale to Hart: "I support the freeze. What's your view?" Hart: "I share that fundamental belief with...
...Hampshire. Because foreign affairs are more exclusively the province of the Executive Branch than are domestic matters, campaign promises are taken more seriously by voters-and by America's allies. A British diplomat has traveled on the Hart plane to observe the candidate on the stump. On an eight-day tour of the U.S. (see following story), French President François Mitterrand had a 15-minute face-to-face meeting with Hart and also telephoned Mondale...