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The pendulum swung last Sunday night, as it may several times again before the election. Michael Dukakis, whose campaign had been moribund since the Democratic Convention, reasserted his voice at the first of two 90-minute showdowns -- and while his overconfident debater's style may be grating, he consistently displayed...
Bush embodies many of the skills that Dukakis's Democratic opponents did and that Dukakis lacks. Bush has a strong command of the issues, including foreign policy, and national government experience. A skilled debater, Bush promises to put Dukakis on the spot when they go head-to-head this fall...
Gore is a talented campaigner and a highly formidable debater who would give the Republicans fits in the general election precisely because he can't be pigeonholed as "soft" on communism or as a big spender. While remaining loyal to the Democratic Party's liberal traditions, Gore would be able...
Tynan himself heedlessly outraced that luck. Affecting purple jackets and leopard-spot trousers, courting the social and cultural glitterati, restlessly glamour-traveling the world, he made it clear from the start that the critic's customary place as a dim lurker in the shadows was not for him. A bourgeoise...
The Conservative Party program calls for partitioning South Africa into 13 separate, independent states. One of them, named Southland and including most of present-day South Africa, would be reserved for whites, while the others would be divided among nonwhites. After Treurnicht finished, Nationalist Minister of Manpower Pietie du Plessis...