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Mondale's performance should also rid fellow Democrats of their maddening propensity to refuse to embrace the ticket. It's been fashionable of late to bad-mouth Mondale and his campaign as losers--even Tip O' Neil has gotten into the act--but that should disappear now with Mondale's closing statement. The question, Mondale argued, should not be that posed by the President--are you better off than you were--but will we, as a nation, be better off in the future by the policies being debated. In saying so, he disavowed the repellent selfishness underlying the Republican appeal...
...largest I.R.A. shipment to be intercepted since 1973. As with an estimated 80% of the terrorists' arms, the trawler's deadly cargo was apparently financed and supplied by nationalist sympathizers in the U.S. Irish authorities reportedly acted on a tip from U.S. intelligence sources...
...been a tainted run. With two out, Steve Balboni walked and was running on a full-count pitch that Frank White popped into short left field. Shortstop Alan Trammell and center fielder Chet Lemon both called for the ball and each backed off before Lemon caught it in the tip of his glove...
...accord reached by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and White House aides does not kill the often wounded but seemingly indestructible intercontinental missile. Unless its critics are undermined by a Reagan re-election landslide, however, they will have at least four clean shots next year at grounding the MX for good. Predicted a confident O'Neill: "The MX will never be deployed." Warned a less certain Democratic colleague, Representative Les AuCoin of Oregon: "MX is in its coffin, but we still have to drive the silver stake through its heart...
...House has always given disproportionate power to its leadership--as well as higher pay--and the system has at the same time given rise to some remarkably effective leadership and blatant patronage and corruption. Speaker of the U.S. House Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neil1 Jr. (D-Cambridge) and defeated U.S. Senate candidate David M. Bartley are among a number of former State House speakers credited with using the post for productive ends...