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...Either way it hurts," said one party elder last week, summing up the "Jackson problem" confronting the Democrats. "Down one path we have to turn our backs on everything this party has purported to stand for--and on our most loyal voting bloc. Down the other, we face certain disaster in the fall...
...easy for Bush to exploit the royalist genes that linger in the Republican bloodstream despite the transfusion of Reaganism. None of his rivals could make a convincing case that the normal line of succession should be suspended in 1988. On Tuesday night one of Dole's Democratic friends, Party Elder Bob Strauss, was visibly saddened by the G.O.P. election returns. Then he brightened and observed, "The Democratic Party may be better off with this result." However, such doubts about Bush's ability to defend the Reagan palace, either in November or in the White House, were invisible among Republican voters...
...initial bewilderment of the students eventually gave way to satisfaction. Carl Craig got a "high five" from his son after passing the ten-commandments test and shedding the first ribbon. After passing the "sales crow" test at Janss mall, the elder Craig was bubbling with pride: "When you turn that ribbon in, you feel like you have just climbed Mount Fuji...
...Janfaza's play] is a pleasant surprise," senior defenseman Don Sweeney says. "I don't think there's a player in the world who thought he'd score 13 goals this year. He has been one of the elder players who's really come out hard...
...leftist group, which opposes the 1979 Egyptian peace treaty with Israel. One of the alleged leaders was none other than Khaled Abdel Nasser, 38, son of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The name of Khaled's group was an obvious reference to the 1952 revolution led by the elder Nasser...