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...DICKEY (R) District 4 (South--Pine Bluff; Hot Springs...
BORN: Dec. 14, 1939, Pine Bluff EDUCATION: U of Arkansas, B.A., 1961, J.D., 1963 FAMILY: Divorced; four children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; restaurateur POLITICAL CAREER: Pine Bluff city attorney, 1968-70; U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 8766, Pine Bluff 71611. Tel.: 501-536-1221 Dickey, who has won two narrow victories here, takes care not to attack favorite son Bill Clinton on his home turf. The exception to this rule is abortion: Dickey co-sponsored the bill to ban partial-birth abortions, which Clinton vetoed. On local issues, he agrees with Vincent Tolliver in supporting proposed Interstate...
...sales skills that made seven-term incumbent Sisisky a millionaire in the beverage industry have also helped him in Congress. And a booming voice and bluff personality make him the archetype of the Southern politician. Still, he is a moderate who aims to please conservative whites as well as the more liberal blacks who make up a third of his district...
...movie also has a pleasantly surprising treat: a fine eye for physical comedy and comic bluff. (After all, dubbing can only have camp appeal for so long.) Here Chan wobbles on the top of a train; there Khan tries to leap into a house and bounces like a tennis ball off the window Chan has just closed. In another very funny bit, Chan, undercover with the help of an artificially effusive family, leads an escaped convict to hide in a village that he must pretend he grew...
...even if the surveys mailed this week to Reform Party supporters reveal a strong backing of Perot." The biggest question now, of course, is whether the Texas billionaire, who spent millions of his own cash to get the Party up and running, can stand to have his bluff called. "Perot all along has said, 'This is not about me,'" says Woodbury. "This is the ultimate acid test, whether Perot -- with as big an ego as his -- can stand to have Lamm under the same tent...