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Robertson has returned at a time when, as he says, "there's a feeling of a little more substance in the air." The two U2 collaborations on the record (Testimony and the reactor-hot Sweet Fire of Love) were launched on little more than a wing, a prayer, a guitar riff, a tom-tom beat and a horn chart written by Gil Evans (Miles Davis' collaborator on Sketches of Spain). It is not only talent that makes these songs work, it's a finding of common ground between Robertson and the Dublin boys so sudden and intense that the discovery...
With three years of national campaigning under his belt, Gephardt is a practiced and polished performer, doggedly crisscrossing the country, prescribing tougher trade policies and heavier doses of education to bolster "human capacity" as cures for an ailing America. His stump speech is a stark sweet-and-sour concoction that warns audiences of inevitable economic decline because of surging foreign competition, yet promises a revitalized America. "I worry about an America where dreams don't come true," he tells Democrats in his earnest style. "Our country has sunk to a low, but we can make it great again...
...Bruce Babbitt, a gnawing personal matter keeps reminding him how tough it is to run for President. It arose this time in Bloomfield, Iowa, over coffee and sweet rolls. "What about elderly health care?" a woman asked. Babbitt's mind rushed to thoughts about his father, who lies seriously ill in Flagstaff, Ariz. "He's 89 years old," Babbitt softly tells her, "and he doesn't have a lot of time left." Though Babbitt often returns to sit by his father's side, each departure rekindles the personal pangs. "It's a very poignant time in my life," he says...
Announcing Kennedy's selection Wednesday, Reagan and his aides put on a show of sweet harmony. Attorney General Edwin Meese, architect of the disastrous Bork and Ginsburg nominations, and Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who had fought all along for a Kennedy-style moderate, made a point of posing ! together wreathed in grins. The President appealed for "cooperation and bipartisanship" in Kennedy's confirmation hearings and pledged to do his part. "The experience of the last several months has made all of us a bit wiser," he said. Reminded by reporters of his pledge after Bork's rejection to give...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Carrie Ross Welch...