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...native South Dakotan, Tom Daschle went to Washington in 1973, just out of college and a stint in the Air Force, to become an aide to South Dakota?s Senator James Abourezk. In 1978, Daschle was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1986 he moved into the Senate. He quickly gained a reputation for humility and a willingness to compromise. He also became known to his critics as a wolfish partisan, whose strong opinions were only partially disguised by a lamb?s demeanor...
...Johnson insisting that "some of the things that have been said in the campaign in the last two weeks of a personal nature are despicable and totally false." Pressler didn't spell out what those were, but most South Dakotans would have known. In September, former Senator James Abourezk, a Democrat, had arranged for Alexander Cockburn, a columnist for the left-leaning weekly Nation, to make several appearances around the state. Why? In his 1996 book Washington Babylon, Cockburn asserts that Pressler had hastily married "amid speculation that he was gay." The only source cited by Cockburn and co-author...
...blames Johnson and his allies for bringing one of the book's co-authors, columnist Alexander Cockburn, into the state to replay the rumors. Johnson points out that Cockburn's address to a private club in Sioux Falls last month was arranged by former South Dakota Senator James Abourezk, who has his own feud with Pressler. Besides, Johnson says, "if Pressler hadn't made such a big deal about it, there wouldn't be 50 South Dakotans who ever heard of the book...
...Abourezk and Bookbinder are the authors of "Through Different Eyes," a written debate on Middle Eastern policy. They have been touring the country and debating in public since September. Two hundred people attended last night's forum...
...Abourezk argued that the American views of the situation in the Middle East have been distorted by the influential pro-Israel lobby in the United States. He claimed that the Palestinians were promised an independent state by the British government in 1918, only to be thwarted by "Zionist political machinations in London...