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Diary includes Herblock and Doonesbury cartoons from the pre-Garth days of the campaign. It was then that Garry Trudeau's Mike Doonesbury joined the Anderson campaign, and members of the Washington press corps immediately recognized the parody of Bisnow...
...occasion was important enough for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to interrupt his official tour of Greece last week and make a statement. Almost 5,000 miles away, fellow Quebecker Brian Mulroney, 44, a bilingual businessman who became leader of the opposition Progressive Conservative Party in June, had just won his first seat in the House of Commons. Mulroney had thus positioned himself to run for Prime Minister in Canada's next federal elections. Graciously calling Mulroney "a formidable opponent," Trudeau, 63, declared: "We will certainly be treating him with respect-and apprehension...
...Trudeau's confidence could not conceal the deepening malaise within his Liberal Party. Mulroney's rise to the Conservative leadership, combined with widespread public dissatisfaction over Trudeau's 15-year tenure in Ottawa, has given the Tories an unprecedented 55%-to-27% edge over the Liberals in recent polls. Says former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Walter Baker: "We smell power...
...English-speaking electrician from the Quebec mining town of Baie Comeau, Mulroney was a labor negotiator before becoming president of the U.S.-owned Iron Ore Company of Canada. He insists that he will spell out specific policies only when Trudeau calls elections, as he must by February 1985. Generally, Mulroney favors increased defense expenditures, incentives to businessmen and investors, and the maintenance of major social programs. But he is also committed to a balanced federal budget and reduced government spending. He has yet to explain how he intends to reconcile these contradictory objectives. "Certainly there will be restraint, but spending...
EXPECTING. Jane Pauley, 32, co-host of NBC's Today Show whose 1981 pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, and Garry Trudeau, 34, Pulitzer-prizewinning political cartoonist, currently on sabbatical from his Doonesbury comic strip: twins, their first children; in December...