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...Francisco 7, Arizona...
...been coming for a while. When Barry Goldwater died Friday in his Arizona home at the age of 89, the Republican party to which he had devoted his political career -- the party that Goldwater had almost single-handedly transformed in the sixties from a stolid, moderate force dominated by the Eastern elite to a movement of crisp conservatism with a populist Southern and Western base -- was no longer recognizable...
...Goldwater's brash, shoot-from-the-hip candidacy had given the GOP new energy and a new self-image -- a party of Marlboro Men, of rugged individualists, of small government and wide freedoms. A party of true Conservatives. And after four years of licking his wounds, the Senator from Arizona regained his seat and became its elder statesman...
...Goldwater, born in 1909, came by that conservatism naturally. His grandparents were Polish immigrants who came to America to escape anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe and then came to frontier Arizona to escape it in eastern America. Young Barry went to a military academy in Virginia for high school, and when his father died he dropped out of the University of Arizona to join the family department-store business. Goldwater was weaned on a conservatism that valued the abilities of the individual, not one's religion, race or sexual orientation. No matter what...
...subject of contentious debate in the Senate this week. Despite demands from leading Senate Democrats--and some Republicans--that the price of a pack of cigarettes be raised by $1.50 over five years, the Administration agreed to support McCain's more modest $1.10-a-pack hike. In return, the Arizona Senator strengthened the provisions that would penalize the industry for not meeting targets in reducing teen smoking. Also, McCain and the White House acted to pacify convenience-store owners by restricting the FDA's ability to unilaterally ban the sale of cigarettes from a whole class of retail outlets...