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People feel they aren't really qualified to judge the technicalities of arms control or foreign policy, so even if they think Mondale could be right, they tend to stay with the man who is in there figuring things out and doing his best day by day. Expectations for Reagan were lower this time, and he benefited from that, as from the fact-which he pointed out-that the country is at peace. At the end, he did not have a concise four-minute speech, but at least there was no bumbling as there was last time...
...process by which Duarte took office. The Administration also aided the Salvadoran armed forces in developing an increasingly aggressive stance toward the guerrillas on the battlefield. That, in the U.S. view, went a long way toward creating incentives for the La Palma meeting. Said a U.S. diplomat: "The guerrillas tend to shy away from negotiations as their power increases. They tend toward negotiations as their power weakens." According to that assessment, Duarte must still wage war in order to wage peace. Indeed, three days after the La Palma meeting, the Salvadoran army launched a new offensive against the guerrillas...
...lime-green sequined dress with a halter collar could have been filched from Twiggy's attic-but his clothes, as Buyer Jean Rosenberg of Henri Bendel in New York City points out, "are not '60s redos. Those clothes were skimpier and skinnier." Sprouse's lines tend to be a little more careful and deliberate, even sculpted, and a lot of his wizardry comes in combinations, like throwing a man-size coat over a mini. Says Pat Henderson of Bergdorf Goodman: "I've got one of his bright pink wool tank dresses, real short. You take...
...that Galbraith is arguing is that you don't want to bias the economy against agriculture," said C. Peter Timmer, Black professor of agriculture and business, adding that, because farmers live far removed from the political centers of third-world countries, their views tend to be ignored by the politicians, to the harm...
...Mondale camp claims that Falwell, founder of the conservative Moral Majority, draws high negative ratings among key voting groups. For example, Moral Majority is anathema to some Jewish voters, as well as to the Yuppies, who tend to be conservative on economic matters but liberal on social issues, especially abortion. Says a Mondale aide: "Falwell is shorthand for the idea that God controls one candidate and one party...