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...biggest electoral turnabouts in the state's history, the 43-year-old Okie from Muskogee became the third House member to lose a primary this year. Voters fed up with the Clinton-like liberal handed 51 percent of the ballot to a 71-year-old retired school principal instead. BTW: How bad is it? Senate bigwig Tom Foley (Democrat, Washington) didn't even have an opponent, yet he pulled only 35 percent of the vote in his primary yesterday...
...jeered at Haitian police, who fired tear gas and reportedly clubbed a man to death as U.S. troops looked on, under orders not to interfere. U.S. forces on the island, meanwhile, increased to 6,000, including about 1,800 Marines who moved ashore at Cap-Haitien in the north. BTW: A U.S. official confirmed to the Associated Press that American commandos had been in Haiti for weeks, set to kidnap Haiti's de facto ruler, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, during an invasion...
...dismantling of thousands of nuclear weapons called for under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The apparent reason: "internal turmoil and old thinking," Perry said, as well as the high cost. In response, he said, the U.S. will keep its long-range missiles till Russia gets off the dime. BTW: Russia still has 25,000 nukes -- enough to destroy the world many times over...
Sweden may soon be the only Western country whose government comes close to matching its population -- at least gender-wise. In yesterday's national elections, women captured 41 percent of all parliament seats. The other winner: the liberal Social Democratic party, which drove out the Conservative government. BTW: The world record for women holding the largest share of government seats is 46 percent, in the African Republic of Seychelles...
...District judge sentenced the former Treasurer to four months in prison for evading taxes, obstructing justice and conspiring to hide outside income while in the post. Villalpando, who pleaded guilty earlier this year, was contrite and -- voice breaking -- begged in vain for community service instead of jail. BTW: Villalpando caused a stir at the GOP convention in '92 by calling Bill Clinton and current U.S. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros "skirt chasers." The Bush White House made her apologize...