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Such reports are enough to give boxing officials pause. Last week New York became the fifth state, after Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, to require boxers to undergo routine HIV testing. Other states are expected to follow suit. Of course, if they are really concerned about the health of boxers--who risk brain damage and even death every time they step into the ring--people in the fight game should probably be thinking about banning the sport altogether...
WILSONVILLE, OREGON: Pat Buchanan continues his swing through Arizona before Tuesday's winner-take all primary. With all 39 delegates going to the winner, Arizona is the biggest prize for candidates so far, and Buchanan is working hard to claim it. "We want to win Arizona very badly, but it's a very tough state and we came in here far behind Steve Forbes and Bob Dole," Buchanan said Friday. With polls showing Dole holding on to a narrow lead over Buchanan and Forbes, Buchanan intensified his attempt to appeal to Arizona's conservative base by trying to push...
...selected in primaries and caucuses during that time. Right now Buchanan leads the pack with 28 delegates, while Dole has 16 and Alexander nine. At least 996 out of 1,990 delegates are needed to win the nomination. The immediate test will come next Tuesday in primaries in Arizona and the Dakotas...
...nonprofit group called the United States National Taxpayers Alliance spent $80,000 on ads attacking the Forbes flat-tax plan. Charles Givens, the get-rich-quick author, is spending half a million dollars of his own fast cash to buy TV time in New Hampshire, and possibly later in Arizona and the Dakotas, for ads that characterize the flat tax as HIGHER TAXES FOR YOU; MORE MONEY FOR FORBES, with the sound of a cash register ringing in the background. Givens has his principles, but he also bears a grudge. Forbes magazine over the years has regularly denounced Givens' "idiotic...
...next five months, Kennedy and Kassebaum tracked down a number of conservative suspects, among them Oklahoma's Don Nickles, Arizona's John Kyl, North Carolina's Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, and majority whip Trent Lott. But each potential culprit denied he was the one standing in the way of the bill--at that moment, at least. The hold, it seems, was rolling from requester to anonymous requester. Behind it all, Kennedy and Kassebaum believed, was the Health Insurance Association of America, which has argued that the bill will be far more expensive than advertised. The association also fears that...