Word: defenders
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...speakerphone. Dole this time "moved from interested spectator to clear participant," says Bennett. He and Burke are convinced that Dole decided then on the 15% across-the-board cut. A big reason: the plan applied the same reduction to both the rich and the poor, so he could defend the move as fair...
Arkansas made civil rights history in 1957 when Governor Orval Faubus resisted integration, using the National Guard to defend segregation, at Little Rock's Central High School. A poor state, with the third-lowest median income in the U.S., the "Land of Opportunity" has nevertheless produced its share of big-money entrepreneurs--like Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and chicken magnate Don Tyson--and President Bill Clinton. Despite the stature of a Democratic native son in the White House, the past two elections have seen a rise in Republican turnout here, and the G.O.P. is pulling out all the stops...
...FAMILY: Wife, Judith Whetstine; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Iowa Senate, 1977-83 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 5875, Cedar Rapids 52406. Tel.: 319-365-3535 If the negatives against the G.O.P. Congress are strong enough, Rush, a former civil-rights lawyer who helped defend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the Supreme Court, might have a chance in this race. In fact, in the past two presidential elections, his district voted for Dukakis and Clinton. Unfortunately for Rush, however, his opponent is Jim Leach...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I pledge to continue the fight to save Medicare...to reform health insurance...and to defend the rights and interests of working families...
...commission also cleared a manager and bartender of allegations that they held down a pair of patrons while the patrons attempted to defend themselves in the bar fight...