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POLITICS: The Heckler in Chief...
...which opponents sneered at his origins -- the mighty Konrad Adenauer called him "alias Herbert Frahm" -- and criticized him for fleeing Germany before the war. Pictures of Brandt wearing a Norwegian uniform were handed out by his Christian Democratic rivals, and at one stop in the 1965 campaign a heckler hoisted a sign reading WE SHALL NOT VOTE FOR A TRAITOR. The harsh campaign and even more bitter second defeat were too much, and for the next three years Brandt virtually withdrew from public life...
...talking about the draft-record chicken or are you talking about the chicken in the Arkansas River?" Bush asked one plumed heckler last week. "Which one are you talking about? Which one? Get out of here. Maybe it's the draft? Is that what's bothering...
Neither side will know how to cope with Perot until his strategy unfolds. Up to this week, they have maneuvered as if Perot were just another heckler. By mid-September, the Bush-Clinton contest had assumed an intimidating structure from the President's viewpoint. Various lines of attack on Clinton -- the "family values" theme, the Arkansan's draft record, his performance as Governor -- failed to boost Bush's ratings. The President's belated attempt to sell his "Agenda for American Renewal" also had only a limited impact...
...follow-the-dots puzzle. Armed with matchless powers of observation ("I pictured . . . his nose pierced, a tiny ruby sitting on his nostril like a semiprecious booger") and a genius for the drudgery of detection, Kinsey follows a methodical trail to Isabelle's killer. Waiting in the dark, with her Heckler & Koch gun and her Winchester Silvertip bullets: that's a home where Kinsey calls the shots...