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There is another side to Kerry that doesn't quite wash with the establishment politics those power suits exemplify. The handsome John Forbes Kerry has also painted himself an outsider who will shake up the petrified forces and fight against "business-as-usual" in Washington...
...extensive and long standing links to radical right groups. Responding to reports that he is a fellow-traveller of the John Birch society and the Liberty Lobby-two antisemitic and racist extremist groups-Shamie has taken the easy way our: blame it on the press. It just doesn't wash. Shamie has yet to provide any concrete evidence that proves he has not spent his entire professional career hovering near the lunatic fringe of right-wing politics...
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...declared Reagan Chief of Staff James Baker shortly after the debate ended. "If it is written that it was a wash, we still win. The age issue is gone, g-o-n-e!" Asked if the feeling in his camp was better than after the Louisville clash, Baker replied happily, "You're damn right...
Privately, the guerrillas concede that the success of El Salvador's presidential balloting last March came as a heavy blow to them. As U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Thomas Pickering puts it, "Since the presidential election, the guerrillas have really seen the political sand wash out from under them." Confidence in Duarte's political legitimacy, in short, provided the most important underpinning for his peace offer...