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1996Year Before some senator proposes an N-chip that would automatically block out negative campaign commercials, let's think positively. Although everybody claims to hate negativity, the peppiest moments of the Republican debates so far have been the personal exchanges over charges made in commercials. And for all the grouching about their insidious effects on American civilization, insults and accusations have always enlivened Presidential campaigns. They are as American as funny hats. Given the slanders that have been slung in the heat of the season about our greatest political figures, from Jefferson to Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt, it is not easy to become outraged over a few cracks about Bob Dole. Granted, if they are flat-out lies, that won't do
attack ads should be held to the same standards as self-celebration ads. But as a genre, negativity is well within the rules of the contest. Although it is out of favor this week, when Steve Forbes is spending a million dollars on ads in New York, be assured it will return, if not during the remaining primaries, then for the election and for many elections to come. And so what? CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK;Banish Attack Ads? That Won't Help
1937Year Day of German Folkdom observed NAZI PAPER WARNS LITHUANIA SHARPLY
Attack After Dispossession of Memel Landowners Seen as Threat of Armed Action
1945Year POLY PREP DOWNS ST. PAUL'S BY 33-0
Attack Against Garden City Team on Home Gridiron Is Sparked by Catlin
1930Year Forces guarding R Gunn reorganized
attack against jail feared FEAR NEW ATTACK BY ST. JOSEPH MOB; Missouri Officers Reorganize the Forces Which Guarded Negro Prisoner.
1925Year Sermon on endangering of peace by forgetting horrors of war DECLARES DISCORD HARMS THE CHURCH
Attack Against Religious Opinion Well Financed, Says the Rev, G.J. Russell. CITES PRESBYTERIAN ISSUES One Relates to Authority of the Church and the Other to Faith, He Asserts.
1921Year Although the industrial stocks continued their downward movement yesterday, the speculative element switched to the railroad list and sharp declines in prices were recorded. The selling came simultaneously with the circulation of rumors that the New Haven Railroad ... TOPICS IN WALL STREET.
Attack Against the Rails. A Week of Rumors. Heavy Selling in Sinclair. Money Market and Reserve Bank. Funding the Railroads' Debt. Gold Imports to Date.