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SWITCH AND FIGHT. When two-term Congressman Eugene Atkinson changed his affiliation from Democrat to Republican a year ago, prospects for his re-election seemed rosy. His new G.O.P. friends promised to fill his coffers with cash and gerrymander his Fourth Congressional District in Pennsylvania to suit his new identity. They came through. Republican national organizations contributed $57,000 to his race against unknown Democrat Joseph Kolter, 56, and the state legislature cut the district's 45,000 Democratic edge in half. But few foresaw the ravages of recession in this steel-mill area, where unemployment...
Perry, 38, charges that Richard C. Atkinson, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego, impregnated her in 1977 during a protracted affair talked her into having an abortion and then reneged on his promise to impregnate her again. Atkinson denies the charges, but Perry seems serious until she changed her mind last week, she had been willing to drop her suit in return for being impregnated again by Atkinson...
...Perry is telling the truth--and reporters covering the story generally believe there was some affair between her and Atkinson--her case has strong gut appeal. In Mitchelson's words, her million-dollar suit says, in effect: "I lost a baby because you deceived me, you lied to me." At 38, Perry may well be too old to bear her first child, according to her attorney, who says having her own child has always been one of the psychologist's major desires. If Perry's facts are right, it's dead wrong that Atkinson--who is 53 and married...
...uncharacteristic legal blunder by Mitchelson could also harm Perry's case. He disclosed to several reporters last week that his client would actually drop her case if Atkinson would again impregnate her, artificially or naturally...
...Atkinson was flabbergasted by the request, and so, it seems, was Perry. This Monday she hastily convened a news conference to say that she no longer would settle for impregnation; Mitchelson had spoken wrong. The end result: Mitchelson looked like a headline-grabber, not an innovative attorney, and his client looked positively flaky. Wire service reporters have taken to calling her case the "no-deposit, no-return" lawsuit. Other monikers are less subtle...