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...race. But the Senator soon had second thoughts and filed the speech away. Since then he has been beaten three more times-in Maine, Minnesota and, most embarrassingly, in his own backyard of New Hampshire. Yet because he got more New Hampshire votes than Carter did in 1976.* Kennedy thrust out a fist and made a peculiar boast: "Tonight we are claiming victory." And he later added, "We're in it to stay...
...renewed upward thrust of inflation was pushing the topsy-turvy economy stage center as the public's biggest single concern. With the 1980 presidential campaign now in high gear, the question of what to do about the nation's worsening economic malaise is fast becoming the key election issue. Complains Houston Housewife Betsy Clark, 48: "I don't think there's a candidate running, including the President, who can handle inflation. My family is fighting high prices by putting off major house improvements and putting our money into art and antiques instead...
...would be unfair to describe the resolution of this ancient script except to say that it is happy. The chief joy of this production is not the plot, in any case, but the amusing game of thrust and parry carried on by Joan Plowright and Frank Finlay as Filumena and her quarry. They are an even-which is to say delightful-match, and they have been elegantly directed by Plowright's husband, Laurence Olivier. -Gerald Clarke
...thrust of what he said throughout the last few weeks is very damaging to our country, and to the establishment of our principals and the maintenance of them, and the achieving of our goals to keep the peace and to get the hostages released...
Despite Zia's drawbacks as a leader. Carter Administration policymakers have concluded that Pakistan must be strengthened in order to discourage the possibility of a Soviet thrust from Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass. Zia has an exalted sense of how much strengthening is needed. When he heard last month that Carter was thinking of providing $400 million in military aid, he petulantly rejected the offer as "peanuts." Just how much Zia thinks he deserves is not yet known, but State Department officials have hinted at a Western aid pack, age of $1.5 billion, including the originally specified $400 million...