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...Blute in Massachusetts and several G.O.P. freshmen, including David Funderburk, a disciple of Senator Jesse Helms (who held his own seat) in North Carolina. In other districts, however, AFL-CIO spending backfired by becoming a major issue. The union federation's No. 1 target in the whole country was Arizona's John David Hayworth Jr., who is outsize in other ways also (he is 6 ft. 5 in. and 285 lb., with a voice and swagger to match). J.D., as he loves to be called, fired back by denouncing the "union bosses" for trying to buy the election for Phoenix...
Strom Thurmond needs just seven more months in office to break the longevity record of Arizona Senator Carl Hayden, who served 41 years, 10 months and 11 days before he left Congress in 1969. With Thurmond's victory over challenger Elliott Close, it looks as if the 93-year-old chairman of the Armed Services Committee will make it. Close, 43, a textile heir and real estate developer with a virtually invisible profile and a nonexistent political record, had barely a chance against South Carolina's reigning Republican. Even the challenger's last-minute barrage of TV ads attempting...
Other private schools, like Dartmouth and Stanford, and state universities in Arizona, California and New Mexico, have much larger Native American populations and recruit Native American students more actively, according to Soler...
Clinton's victory was also made easier because Dole was the wrong man for the job, USA Today's Judy Keen said. She said she polled Republicans in Arizona, a historically Republican-friendly territory, early in the election season and found disappointment among activists about their would-be nominee...
...still devotes a lot of time to military affairs--as chairman of the House Military Procurement Subcommittee, where he lobbies for more defense dollars. He also has made illegal immigration a priority and is a strong opponent of the "NAFTA Train," a proposal to restore the San Diego and Arizona Railroad, which dips into Mexico and, according to Hunter, would be a magnet for illegal aliens and bandits...