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When the next round of underground primary ratings emerges through rough consensus, three of the competitors will probably do well for different reasons. Gephardt has plowed Iowa more vigorously than a platoon of farmers and managed to identify himself with an issue -- protectionist measures to cut the trade deficit -- that appeals to labor activists. Even those who disagree with Gephardt's approach concede that he has exploited it shrewdly. Given the fractured nature of the Hart-less field, the support of labor could boost Gephardt to top-tier status, though it may hamper the recent headway he has been making...
...organization, is Babbitt. Like Hart, Babbitt has a position -- and a policy paper to prove it -- on everything. Desperate to score in Iowa, Babbitt in late April became the first to run television ads there. Because he is still a stranger in Washington, Babbitt has fared poorly in the underground primary...
...series of arrests, executions and deportations of Resistance fighters that the French Supreme Court says shows Barbie's "systematic persecution" of the French underground...
...people and the deportation to concentration camps of 7,591 Jews, most of whom perished. His name is guaranteed to live in French infamy for one deed alone, the torture-murder of Jean Moulin, the French Resistance hero and Charles de Gaulle's representative to the underground. But because the statute of limitations has run out on many of his crimes, the career Nazi official will not stand trial for most of the outrages he is known to have committed. Instead, he is charged with four "crimes against humanity" that remain punishable indefinitely, though no longer by the death penalty...
...race for the White House, it poses a larger question for voters and the press: When is an inquiry into a politician' s private behavior legitimate, and when is it an unfair intrusion that says nothing about his qualifications for public office? -- One of the central figures in the underground sale of U. S. weapons to the contras and Iran, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, testifies that he was told Reagan was aware of the rogue operation' s illegal dealings. -- Secretary of State George Shultz responds to criticism from Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger of the Administration...