Nation: In Search of a Theme

A bumpy week as Carter struggles to find an upbeat approach

Even for this peculiar presidential election, it was a week of bizarre happenings. At a $125-a-plate fund-raising dinner in San Francisco, Independent John Anderson sat stunned as sequin-clad Gary Poole led his disco dance troupe through a series of exotic routines. A male dancer hauled a woman, clad in a white jumpsuit, around the stage on a leash. After the dance was over, Anderson remarked to the 400 partygoers: "I'm guilty of a certain Midwestern naiveté. I've never seen anything quite like this...

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