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...been President for four years, who oversees the largest deficit in the nation's history, who is responsible for the deaths of 240 American Marines in Lebanon and who, by cutting social programs, has thrown half a million people into poverty be viewed as an innocent outsider? There are many Americans who wish that the President were an outsider. We will have to wait until November for our wish to come true...
Geraldine Ferraro has handled with aplomb most of the questions thrown at her on the campaign trail. But she seemed evasive last week when asked why she has been so secretive about the income of her husband John Zaccaro, a wealthy New York real estate man. Like 20 other members of Congress, Ferraro has claimed an exemption from saying anything about a spouse's business activities in the financial-disclosure reports that all federal lawmakers must file...
...event, history's fastest all-woman marathon began in a quaint setting at the compact track of Santa Monica City College, where the mood was suitable for a high school pep rally, and so few tickets were sold at just $4 a head that the gates eventually were thrown open to all. Being a 5-ft. 3-in. feather in the wind, Benoit found that just 50 jostling women caused a terrific congestion. She hurried into the clear under a delightful painter's hat with the bill brushed back. About three miles out, Benoit ran away completely...
Then, in the pole vault, Hingsen nearly succumbed to the decathlete's nightmare: disqualification for not making height. Before vaulting, he had thrown up twice, and on his first two tries at 14 ft. 9 in. he looked like a clumsy fledgling. On his third effort he cleared it by a whisker, but that was as high as he went. Under the point system, each inch in the vault is worth about 6 points, making it a disproportionately weighted event. So with Hingsen grounded, Thompson rose for the kill. When he cleared 16 ft. 4¾ in., he delightedly...
...tone. "If someone throws you down a well a hundred feet and then they haul you up fifty feet, you feel a lot better," observed Democratic Representative Larry Smith of Florida. "But you never would have been down there in the first place if they hadn't thrown you down." Israel's immediate challenge, however, is at home, not with its neighbors. The country must solve not just the temporary problem of creating a new government but the more lasting one of how to translate its political will and vi brant democracy into stronger, more effective leadership...