Word: apodaca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These women will get high-level help from the wives and daughters of powerful politicians. The feminist crusade has lately recruited many of them, and they were at Houston in large numbers. Cynthia Baker, Daughter of Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, was a delegate at large; Cecilia Apodaca, wife of the Governor, was a delegate from New Mexico; the West Vir ginia delegation included Sharon Rockefeller, the Governor's wife. At Houston, Helen Milliken, wife of Michigan's Governor, declared herself "a newly proclaimed feminist?I used to think it was a bad notion...
...Mexico's Democratic Governor Jerry Apodaca, 42, finds himself in a situation where he would like to lead in a different direction but has no hope of succeeding. "A bill [restoring
...capital punishment] will come before me in January or February," said Apodaca. "I will veto it. The legislature is likely to override that veto. In the event that a man is sentenced to die, I will not commute his death penalty simply because I disagree with it. At that point it is my responsibility to enforce...
CHRIS BROWN, 27, New England Regional Coordinator. A native of Seattle and an expert on the mechanics of campaigning, he was a student organizer for McCarthy in 1968, and was an early co-chairman for McGovern in Seattle four years later. In 1974 he managed Jerry Apodaca's winning gubernatorial campaign in New Mexico. After briefly serving on Apodaca's staff, Brown joined Carter in 1975. Now that the electioneering is moving on to primaries beyond New England, Brown will probably run Carter's campaign in the Western states...
...complicated than the fact that the party had generally managed to put forward the most attractive and distinctive candidates in a campaign in which many of the gubernatorial rivals were taking remarkably similar positions. Among the winners were Raul Castro, the first Chicano to be elected in Arizona; Jerry Apodaca, the first Spanish-surnamed candidate to win in New Mexico in 56 years; and Hawaii's George Ariyoshi, the first American of Japanese ancestry to reach a U.S. Governor's mansion...