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Nevertheless, the United States should not "tilt" toward Iraq, as we recently did toward Jordan in our offer of weapons to King Hussein. Iraq is not even one of the so-called moderate Arab states. The minority-supported regime in Iraq practices some of the most brutal and oppressive internal policies of any country in the world--a claim supported by their use of mustard gas, which was outlawed after World War I in a treaty ratified by Iraq...
...fourth in New Hampshire, with 5.3% of the vote; if he falls below 10% again in Vermont's nonbinding "beauty contest" primary on Tuesday, his federal matching funds by law would be cut off 30 days later. That date is distant enough to permit Jackson to continue campaigning full-tilt through the important March primaries and caucuses in Southern states where blacks constitute a large proportion of the Democratic turnout. He might win enough delegates to hurt Mondale, Glenn, or both, and possibly even bag the 20% of the vote he would need to get in at least one primary...
...hopes depend further on Glenn's and Jackson's doing well, at Mondale's expense on Super Tuesday, March 13: if Mondale sweeps the three Southern primaries that day, in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, th race is essentially over. Mondale plans to run at full tilt in every contest. "The person who skips primaries," says his campaign chairman, James Johnson, "does so at his own peril...
Iran and Iraq go full tilt...
Even if Andropov was too physically frail to attend last December's party plenum, he appeared to come out of the meeting politically stronger. The balance of power in the Politburo seemed to tilt in his favor by the appointment of two new men whose careers had been stalled under Brezhnev. Politburo Newcomer Vitali Vorotnikov, 58, joined a number of younger leaders who appeared to owe their growing prominence to the ailing leader. They included former Azerbaijan Party Chief Geidar Aliyev, 60, who was the first Andropov appointee to the party's inner circle, and two technocrats, Nikolai...