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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000201170004-0: MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATS SWEPT ALONG BY THE CURRENT

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/20: CIA-RDP90-00965R000201170004-0 WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTpA ~A BRED 1 23 October 1986 ON Mainstream Democrats Swept Along by the Current "People of Fulham," I can remember Auberon Waugh bellowing through a mega- phone back in the mid-1960s in London. "a terrible choice confronts you: the choice between an imbecile and a mass mur- derer'" Mr. Waugh was running as a write-in candidate in the borough of Ful- ham and trying to alert the voters to the limited appeal of the candidates of the two major parties. In this instance, the imbe- cile was some l…