Word: vitality
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Still, the peace issue is hurting Reagan. One example: in Illinois, a Republican has to run up big margins in the five "collar counties" around Chicago to offset the Democratic city tally and win the state's vital 26 electoral votes. But in DuPage County, where Ford took 71% of the vote in 1976, Democratic polls show Reagan pulling only 50%. Says County Democratic Coordinator Sue Ellen Johnson: "It's the feeling that Reagan is not up to it mentally and that he is not afraid of war as much as he should be." Republican leaders in DuPage...
...only silly, it is dangerous. But the candidates themselves declared it would be vital-and the pollsters, and the journalists. No wonder Americans began to believe the reviews of how they were expected to respond. To hear some tell it, they were planning to pull up around the television set as if it were Oscar night in Hollywood and measure teeth, hair, voices, eyes and shapes, thus resolving months of indecision by observing 90 minutes of two-dimensional posturing...
...both men to gloss over their miscalculations, exaggerate their strengths, try to lure the other one into error, in order to emerge in the eyes of the public at large as a "winner." All of these objectives so coveted in television performances are the opposite of the qualities so vital to Executive deliberation and diplomatic negotiation...
...course, a method in the apparent madness of supporting and condoning the Marcos regime does exist. The Philippines has two strategic air bases vital to U.S. military capability in the region. For this reason, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown reportedly circulated a letter in the Senate advising that the Philippines "must not be impaired at this time." This translates into tacit support for Marcos' flailing government. Not only did Congress approve the agreed-upon $100 million for Marcos, it added $6 million above and beyond the pact. Those in the Pentagon have an answer for bleeding-heart liberals--without...
Navasky, 48, editor of the weekly magazine Nation, begins by assuming that the informer was not vital to the containment of the American Communist Party. The party, he points out, numbered only 31,608 members in 1950, including undercover FBI agents. Even if witnesses were required, they were not to be found in show business-unless headlines were worth more than truth. Actor Larry Parks, a onetime Communist, exposed the machinery of informing when he begged Hollywood investigators: "Don't present me with the choice of either being in contempt of this committee and going to jail or forcing...