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...fanfare. His mission: to work out a deal with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to buy U.S. weapons. But the talks went little beyond the agreements made during Weinberger's trip to China last fall and Reagan's visit in April. The Chinese reaffirmed their interest in TOW antitank and Hawk antiaircraft missiles, but there were no specific commitments accompanying the "agreement in principle" reached last week...
...time dragged. Small groups began to cluster around TV sets. Campaign workers whispered anxiously among themselves. Still no candidate, still no statement. Finally, a few minutes after 11 p.m., Walter Mondale waded slowly through the now diminished crowd, family and entourage in tow. His face was weary, his voice flat and somber. "I know we're going to win this," he insisted. "I know we're going to be elected. That's what the American people want...
Jackson says he is the "real alternative. There are three candidates in this race but only tow points of view. I am the only one calling for a cut in the defense budget. We need more than a new President. We head a new direction...
...upset in the making: only a week before the primary, an ABC-Washington Post poll showed Mondale first with 37% and Gary Hart third (behind John Glenn) with 13%. The Mondale campaign serenely cruised about the state in long motorcades, with scores of reporters and television crews in tow. Hart bounced around in vans, with few reporters and fewer TV cameras in sight. As he wandered into coffee shops, Hart seemed shy and diffident. "Hello, I'm running for President," he awkwardly ventured to one middle-aged woman. "Of the United States?" she asked incredulously...
...first public displays of clout? Hold on, the researchers say, look back further. In January 1983, Iowa's popular Democratic Congressman, Tom Harkin, endorsed Mondale, sending a strong signal to the party faithful. But wait. The logbook shows that Mondale journeyed to Iowa in February 1982 in tow of Congressman Neal Smith, the two doing a little mutual stumping. Important Democrats took notice...