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Bushwhacked? In last week’s New Yorker Elizabeth Drew says George Bush told her that he has yet to be convinced SDI will work, and that he disclosed his feelings about this to Gorbachev. Not true, said Bush spokesman Stephen Hart, after Jack Kemp said that if it were true he would be “stunned” and “shocked” at Bush’s failure to understand the importance to U.S. security of the Space Shield. . . . Kemp’s camp elated last week by New Hampshire poll showing him at 15 per cent, up from 8 a few weeks earlier, and just eight points behind Dole (23). . . . On Democratic side, Sen. Paul Simon, whose campaign was hard hit by Gary Hart’s re-entry, is taking Herculean measures to score in Iowa; he’s got 150 staffers working there. . . . Democratic Iowa State Chairman Bonnie Campbell doesn’t think Hart is much of a threat. She told Mary McGrory: “The people who go to caucuses in the cold are people who care about policy and the party. They don’t throw away a vote.” Mrs. Campbell thinks it was name recognition that put Hart at top of recent Des Moines Register poll. . . . While Robert Strauss is unlikely to endorse any Democratic candidate in near future, say Evans & Novak, he has been “talking up” Sen. Albert Gore “around the nation and with fellow Texans.” Gore has lined up big string of endorsements by influential Southern politicians, despite his 13 per cent ACU rating. . . . One Alabama state senator told Human Events’. “Gore’s the one man in the race who can keep white Democrats in our primary, and convince them not to cross over for a Jack Kemp or Bob Dole, and thereby stop Jesse Jackson in the South.” … It was thanks but no thanks from an alarmed Speaker Jim Wright when Jackson said on Face the Nation that Wright had “grown so much as a political servant” he might make a suitable running-mate. . . . Last week Jackson received endorsement of Communist Party. Angela Davis praised him for articulating “the most advanced positions on virtually all the issues.” . . . When asked in a David Frost interview which world leaders most impressed him, Jackson picked three from left field: Gorbachev (“a very astute man”), Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (“a scientific Marxist . . . with steel nerves”), and Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda (“a very spiritual leader, very profound, quite intellectual”).

“Whatever you do, try not to irritate Iran!”

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Bushwhacked? In last week’s New Yorker Elizabeth Drew says George Bush told her that he has yet to be convinced SDI will work, and that he disclosed his feelings about this to Gorbachev. Not true, said Bush spokesman Stephen Hart, after Jack Kemp said that if it were true he would be “stunned” and “shocked” at Bush’s failure to understand the importance to U.S. security of the Space Shield. . . . Kemp’s camp elated last week by New Hampshire poll showing him at 15 per cent, up from 8 a few weeks earlier, and just eight points behind Dole (23). . . . On Democratic side, Sen. Paul Simon, whose campaign was hard hit by Gary Hart’s re-entry, is taking Herculean measures to score in Iowa; he’s got 150 staffers working there. . . . Democratic Iowa State Chairman Bonnie Campbell doesn’t think Hart is much of a threat. She told Mary McGrory: “The people who go to caucuses in the cold are people who care about policy and the party. They don’t throw away a vote.” Mrs. Campbell thinks it was name recognition that put Hart at top of recent Des Moines Register poll. . . . While Robert Strauss is unlikely to endorse any Democratic candidate in near future, say Evans & Novak, he has been “talking up” Sen. Albert Gore “around the nation and with fellow Texans.” Gore has lined up big string of endorsements by influential Southern politicians, despite his 13 per cent ACU rating. . . . One Alabama state senator told Human Events’. “Gore’s the one man in the race who can keep white Democrats in our primary, and convince them not to cross over for a Jack Kemp or Bob Dole, and thereby stop Jesse Jackson in the South.” … It was thanks but no thanks from an alarmed Speaker Jim Wright when Jackson said on Face the Nation that Wright had “grown so much as a political servant” he might make a suitable running-mate. . . . Last week Jackson received endorsement of Communist Party. Angela Davis praised him for articulating “the most advanced positions on virtually all the issues.” . . . When asked in a David Frost interview which world leaders most impressed him, Jackson picked three from left field: Gorbachev (“a very astute man”), Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (“a scientific Marxist . . . with steel nerves”), and Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda (“a very spiritual leader, very profound, quite intellectual”).

“Whatever you do, try not to irritate Iran!”