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EAUFORT, S.C.: South Carolina Governor David Beasley declared a state of emergency, called out the National Guard and ordered half a million people evacuated from coastal areas as Hurricane Fran swirled toward landfall on 115 mph winds. "Fran is a large and brutal storm, and she is not to be trifled with in any shape, way, fashion or form," said Beasley. Fran, which some experts fear may pack the punch of Hurricane Hugo, is likely to come ashore Thursday afternoon north of Charleston, the same place where Hugo, with its 140 mph winds, hit land with devastating effect...
When it was Dole's turn the next night to face the pro-life armies of the Christian Coalition, he talked about his voting record, and left it to South Carolina's popular Governor David Beasley to testify for him. "I've sat face to face with Bob Dole," Beasley told the crowd when he introduced the Senator, as if that were a sit-down with God. What the Governors, each in their turn, have all been trying to say is that they've seen Bob Dole where he is best, in the back rooms making the childish ones...
...Buchanan pushing his nativist protectionism elsewhere in the state, Dole toured the bustling BMW plant near Spartanburg, a symbol of South Carolina's embrace of the global economy. "It was a perfect chance to hit a home run for free trade and the interconnected world economy," says Governor David Beasley, an energetic Dole supporter. So what did Dole do? Nothing. He stood by quietly, speaking only to introduce some surrogates, who did their best to explain what Dole should have explained. His staff members blamed Dole's reticence on poor advance work. "But he'd been to the same plant...
...Last year juries in Alabama awarded $200 million in punitive damages, some of it in cases where actual loss was minuscule compared with the damages. "Alabama is off the charts," said George Priest, a Yale University professor of law and economics. "Lawsuits used to be about restitution. Now Jere Beasley goes into court and not only gets the money back; he gets $25 million in punitive damages. There is no other county in the U.S. like Barbour County...
Opposing the legislation was the 60,000-member Association of Trial Lawyers of America, which characterized the reforms as "propped up by distortion and lies." In Alabama, Beasley said, with protection like this his vanquished foes "would have clicked their heels and chirped like larks." Ralph Nader was a particularly vociferous opponent. Nader said only $3 billion annually passes from losers to winners in insured payouts when companies are sued, pointing out that $3 billion is less than a year's profits for many large companies-Ford or GM, say. "Pick any company," said Nader. "There's more in profits...