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...that includes the Daytons, you're right." And he adds, "If you don't believe it, look at how many members of my family are contributing to my opposition." Sure enough, as many as eight Dayton family members have helped fatten Durenberger's $2.2 million war chest...
...race to Democrat Max Baucus in a nasty fight. This time the campaign is gentlemanly clean. Williams describes his present opponent as "a good, decent fellow," but suggests he is the captive of special-interest groups. Roughly $350,000 of the $550,000 already in Melcher's war chest comes from outside the state, mostly from 150 political-action committees, prompting some Montanans to dub Melcher...
Republicans will benefit from a far larger party war chest: $126 million so far, compared with $15 million for the Democrats. The key to Republican riches has been sophisticated direct-mail solicitations. Although individual Democratic candidates tend to raise more money than Republicans, mainly because more of them are incumbents, the G.O.P's overflowing campaign treasury will allow the party to funnel dollars into close races and spend up to ten times as much as the Democrats on nationwide television...
When King Hussein was a 15-year-old prince, a medal on his chest deflected a Palestinian radical's bullet and saved his life. In the same fusillade, Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah was shot dead at the prince's side while entering the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. That was a chilling lesson in the dangers of power, and the quirks of fate, for the young man who two years later would inherit the throne...
...baby-faced Gemayel consciously cultivates a macho image, often appearing in public in military fatigues, his feet squared in the "at ease" position, his arms folded across his chest. To his Phalangist followers, he projects the personal magnetism of a combat leader who has fought and suffered with them on the battlefields. After his family, he is most comfortable with his troops...