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...same time, critics observe, Bush opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. During his 1988 campaign, Bush almost never went into black neighborhoods to ask for votes. And his campaign relied heavily on TV spots focusing on Willie Horton, a black murderer who raped a white woman while on furlough from a Massachusetts prison...
...Hammonasset Beach State Park last Tuesday, rangers routed campers out of their tents and ordered them to leave. In Hartford a few hours later, agencies ranging from the department of banking to the board of pardons failed to open their doors as 20,000 state employees began an indefinite furlough...
...relics. But doubters may recall that he re-made his game once before, when he added a big serve in 1978 after he had won Wimbledon a couple of times. Tennis comebacks aren't unknown; John McEnroe, 32, who was one of the reasons Borg burned out, took a furlough from the game for several months in '86, came back, left again in '87, came back once more, and last fall reached the semi-finals of the U.S. Open...
Weld's education budget proposal includes increased tuition demands on students and a furlough plan which will force many professors to work without...
Most cynical of all was Atwater's constant harping on Willie Horton, a Black convict who raped a woman while on a furlough from prison. Referring to Dukakis, Atwater said he would "strip the bark off the little bastard" and "make Willie Horton his running mate...