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...problem with Baker is that he isn't recognized with one state or a certain constituency, and unlike Bentsen, he doesn't bring in a big state or a large constituency. Tennessee is a toss-up with or without Baker, and it doesn't have enough electoral votes to sway the election either...
...General Edwin Meese's determination to stay in office and by the Administration's inept negotiations with Panamanian Strongman Antonio Noriega. A man who dislikes confrontation, Baker was often reluctant to argue a position with the President. But he maintains that he was not upset by a failure to sway Reagan. "The President makes his own decisions," says Baker. "I've never been disappointed if he goes some other course. All that has nothing to do with my decision to leave the Administration...
That's the price he paid so that he might now say, with full professorial sway, what in some other fellow's mouth would be small-minded. And he has the audacity to suggest that anyone who would question what he believes is in the grip of an unspeakable sickness. If the rest of us defer because of Kilson's title, or because of the stylish prefixes he uses, we'll pay a price...
...recent Anti-Israel campaign at Harvard instituted by the Society of Arab Students illustrates all too clearly the narrow-minded, antagonistic attitudes of the SAS. The purpose of their propaganda is to sway public opinion against what many U.S. Senators have deemed America's "most reliable ally," and the "only viable democracy in the Middle East." The SAS hopes to create a permanent wedge between the United States and Israel. To expose their true intentions, all one has to do is analyze their crude, sensationalist posters...
...Gephardt was back. "I do think it would be possible," he said, "now that Mike has modified his trade stance, and if the convention desires . . ." His voice trailed off. The director ordered a close-up of Dukakis, silently doing the math once more; Gephardt, even if he could sway all his delegates, could not assure the nomination. "Forgive me, Ted," Dukakis said, "but really this is not the forum to be holding such conversations. As I've said before, I'll be talking with Dick and many others, but I don't think this is the place...