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...first-term Democratic Senator from Hawaii who served seven terms in the House, he was a 17-year-old student at a Reserve Officers Training Corps high school in Honolulu...
...nine city councillors were reelected last week, with the only real contest between first-term councillor Edward N. Cyr and School Committee member and former mayor Alfred E. Vellucci. Cyr won the final seat on the council, handing Vellucci his first loss in more than 40 years of Cambridge electoral politics...
...first-term Florida Governor lost a re-election bid to former Democratic Senator Lawton Chiles...
...Democratic Senators voted as one in a failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the 1990 Civil Rights Act. So what's holding up Ted Kennedy from introducing a new version of the bill this year? The problem: a mini-rebellion by at least half a dozen first-term Senators who are up for re-election and terrified that Republican challengers will smear them for supporting "racial quotas." Chuck Robb of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee, confirms that he is "working with several people for a bill that can get signed." Translation: the vulnerable legislators...
...injury has also added to his academic pressures. Because Weisbrod had to take the valium provided for his back, he could not take three first-term finals. He has studied afternoons over the past few weeks to prepare for next week's make-up examinations...