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8th of May 1984 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 8 mei 1984
SEEKER OF RECONCILIATION
Date: 08 May 1984
By Richard J. Meislin
Richard Meislin
If official returns confirm his own party's estimates, Jose Napoleon Duarte has achieved a dream he has harbored for more than two decades: governing El Salvador as its elected President. ''Some 23 years to get to this moment,'' said Mr. Duarte, 57 years old, ''and this moment is just the beginning of a much longer road.'' A confirmed victory in the runoff election Sunday would mark the third time Mr. Duarte has been chosen as the country's top civilian official - twice through election, and once by appointment. His first apparent victory in a presidential election came in 1972. His running mate was Guillermo Manuel Ungo, now a leader of the exile opposition political forces. The military responded to the victory by jailing Mr. Duarte, beating him severely and throwing him out of the country. His right cheek still shows an odd indentation, which he attributes to a the butt of a gun.
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METHOD USED FOR VOTER POLL
Date: 09 May 1984
The New York Times/CBS News polls yesterday in Ohio and North Carolina were based on questionnaires completed by Democratic voters as they left polling places in randomly selected precincts in all parts of each state. In Ohio, 1,511 voters were polled in 49 precincts.
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Bush Starts Asia Trip
Date: 08 May 1984
UPI
Upi
Vice President Bush started a two-week trip to Asia today. He will discuss trade and economic issues with Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and other Japanese officials in Tokyo before going to Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Oman.
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WHAT GAVE HART STRENGTH: LATE PUSH, A LOCAL HERO AND WORRIES OVER LABOR
Date: 09 May 1984
By Hedrick Smith
Hedrick Smith
Intensive late campaigning in Ohio over the past 10 days helped lift Senator Gary Hart to a surprising victory over Walter F. Mondale in one of the nation's most important industrial states yesterday, according to The New York Times/CBS News poll. The poll also showed that a tendency of many Ohio voters to substitute Mr. Hart for their home- state hero, Senator John Glenn, and their strong worries about the power of organized labor helped lift the Coloradan to his unexpected triumph. Roughly one in five voters said they had made their choice in the past three days, according to the Times/CBS News Poll of 1,511 voters leaving balloting sites in Ohio. Half of them said they wentfor Mr. Hart, one-third for Mr. Mondale, who spent much of the past 10 days in Texas and other states, and one-sixth for the Rev. Jesse Jackson. By contrast, in North Carolina where Mr. Mondale won, he had the edge among late-deciding voters. In addition, Senator Hart, who has found political demographics working against him in New York, Pennsylvania and Texas, saw his best constituencies, political independents and ''new generation'' white voters, especially in the suburbs turning out in more substantial numbers in Ohio, and they went for him solidly, by 2-to-1 margins.
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TEXAS CAUCUSES: HISPANIC VOTE BUOYED MONDALE AND DISAPPOINTED JACKSON
Date: 08 May 1984
By Hedrick Smith
Hedrick Smith
Walter F. Mondale's powerful support among white Democrats and Mexican-Americans in the Texas Democratic caucuses Saturday not only enabled him to trounce Senator Gary Hart, it also foiled the Rev. Jesse Jackson's bid for a ''rainbow coalition,'' according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. Ever since announcing his candidacy with Hispanic leaders by his side, Mr. Jackson has vowed to expand upon his natural political base among blacks to form a ''rainbow coalition'' by drawing support from Hispanic voters, American Indians, Asians and other minority groups, as well as whites. Texas, with its large and growing Mexican-American electorate, provided his best target. In recent weeks, Mr. Jackson campaigned hard for Mexican-American votes in the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley. But the Times/CBS News poll, of 1,105 people as they entered the Texas caucuses, showed that among Mexican-Americans, Mr. Mondale was the first preference of 79 percent and Mr. Jackson 5 percent. Mr. Hart of Colorado, benefiting a little from active politicking on his behalf by Mayor Federico Pena of Denver, was the first choice of 16 percent.
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SOVIET WIDENING DRIVE, AFGHAN SAYS
Date: 08 May 1984
By Drew Middleton
Drew Middleton
An Afghan rebel spokesman said yesterday that the Soviet Union's spring offensive in Afghanistan, although most intense in a key valley north of the capital, had expanded into heavy attacks against insurgents around the country. The spokesman, Abdul Rahim, a political officer for the Islamic Society rebel organization, said at a news conference in Manhattan that the Soviet objective appeared to be to wipe out resistance in the Panjshir Valley, 50 miles north of Kabul, and in other areas of north-central Afghanistan. ''This is the time for the American people to press Congress for more aid for our cause,'' Mr. Rahim said at Freedom House, 20 West 40th Street. He said the rebels did not have the heavy weapons needed to shift from the defensive to the offensive.
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Justice, Mercy and Agent Orange
Date: 09 May 1984
The tentative settlement reached in the Agent Orange trial is not a triumph of justice, because no one knows what justice in the case might be. It's not a triumph for the judicial system, because what drove the parties to settle was fear of the law's costs and delays. But it's the best feasible solution to an intractable problem. Both the makers of Agent Orange and the Vietnam veterans who blame the herbicide for their disabilities stand to gain if the settlement is accepted.
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Moscow Settles a Score
Date: 09 May 1984
No matter how rationalized, the Soviet withdrawal from the Los Angeles Olympics is nothing more than paying America back in kind for its boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow. This joust has now deprived what amounts to a whole athletic generation of truly Olympic tests. It has also proved that if the modern Games are to continue, their form and location needs to be thoroughly rethought.
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TEXT OF SOVIET STATEMENT ON OLYMPIC GAMES
Date: 09 May 1984
Reuters
Following is the text of a statement by the Soviet National Olympic Committee today saying it would not send a team to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, as distributed in translation by the Soviet press agency Tass: The National Olympic Committee of the U.S.S.R. made an all-round analysis of the situation around the games of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles and studied the question of participation of the Soviet sports delegation in them. As is known, in its statement of April 10, 1984, the National Olympic Committee of the U.S.S.R. voiced serious concern over the rude violations by the organizers of the Games of the rules of the Olympic Charter and the anti-Soviet campaign launched by reactionary circles in the United States with the connivance of the official authorities, and asked the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) to study the obtaining situation. At its meeting on April 24 this year the I.O.C. found the stand of the U.S.S.R. National Olympic Committee to be just and substantiated.
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REAGAN CAMPAIGNS FOR LATIN POLICY
Date: 09 May 1984
By B. Drummond Ayres Jr
President Reagan said today that the voters of El Salvador were ''heroes of democracy'' and warned that there would be ''grim consequences to pay'' if the United States did not continue to help Central American countries in their fight for freedom. Speaking to the Council of the Americas, a group of United States businessmen with interests in Latin countries, Mr. Reagan said that democracy was growing in Central America and that the people struggling for it there ''are fighting for freedom just as much as our forefathers did.'' He cited the election in El Salvador Sunday as an exceptional example of democratic progress in the region and indicated he was pleased that the winner is likely to be the moderate candidate, Jose Napoleon Duarte. At the same time, he left no doubt that he would use the election's results to help his fight to convince Congress to approve his controversial requests for more economic and military aid for Latin countries, particularly El Salvador.
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