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Kerry campaign officials are massaging the state's liberal network in its post-Labor Day blitz, while Weld is using frequent media splashes to lure independent and moderate voters across party lines...
Meanwhile, the former security guard's lawyers engaged in a media blitz to deliver him from the same fate. As the days following the leakage of Jewell's name as a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing turned to weeks without an arrest, defense counsel Jack Martin led reporters on a hike from the place where Jewell showed officials the bomb to the pay phone from which a warning call was placed a minute and a half later. The brisk walk, presumably faster than the pace Jewell could have sustained through Olympic crowds, took four minutes. Then last week...
...sacrifice itself." And while he may have preached a sermon on Thursday, his aides had already left the church; they're busy scheduling a Dole-Kemp bandwagon that will take the tax-cut promise to every battleground state in the next three weeks, backed by a 20-state advertising blitz. Some supporters aren't even bothering with DOLE-KEMP '96 buttons. Theirs read...
...safe-sex campaign aimed at prostitutes has worked. The rate of HIV INFECTION among young men in Thailand, home to one of the world's fastest-growing AIDS epidemics, is half what it was in 1991. That's when the government unleashed a media blitz and began providing condoms to brothels...
Meanwhile, in Lynwood, a largely ethnic neighborhood of Los Angeles, another Union Summer group gathered at 8 o'clock on a recent morning across the street from the Superior Super Warehouse and readied for a "blitz." "You'll be scared," warned veteran organizer Lois Elbornetti. "But don't worry, just have fun." The students had to "roach" the nonunion store--they entered en masse, headed for the back, then spread like cockroaches. They quickly handed out leaflets with the phone number of the United Food & Commercial Workers to all employees. And got out fast. The plan went like clockwork, with...