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...Secretary's financial-disclosure statement for 1983, made public in May, indicated that the farming partnerships in which he has an interest obtained unsecured loans totaling about $2.5 million, most of which appear to have been assumed since his nomination to the Cabinet. Exon and Congressman Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat who is running for the Senate this year, wondered aloud whether banks were showing favoritism to Block at a time when, as Block's critics say, other farmers could not get credit on any terms...
...through some rocky times." According to the Senator, the fact that his application, confiscated in a police raid two months after his visit, was publicized by an Iowa radio station at this time points to "character assassination ... by forces which seek my defeat for re-election." Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin is already running well ahead of Jepsen in the polls. Since a shift of six seats would give control of the Senate to the Democrats, Jepsen's problems are important to the calculations of both parties...
...free-for-all among four Republicans vying to run against Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr.; Mississippi, where popular former Democratic Governor William Winter is challenging Republican Thad Cochran; and Iowa, where an acrimonious race is shaping up between freshman Senator Roger Jepsen, a conservative Republican, and Representative Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat. In each case the outcome will partly turn on the popularity of the man at the top of the ballot, Ronald Reagan...
...when Mondale swept most of the primaries and caucuses? Was it Feb. 28 in New Hampshire or Feb. 20 in Iowa, when Mondale gave his first public displays of clout? Hold on, the researchers say, look back further. In January 1983, Iowa's popular Democratic Congressman, Tom Harkin, endorsed Mondale, sending a strong signal to the party faithful. But wait. The logbook shows that Mondale journeyed to Iowa in February 1982 in tow of Congressman Neal Smith, the two doing a little mutual stumping. Important Democrats took notice...
...Iowa, Republican incumbent Roger W. Jepsen, has also closed a polling gap on his Democratic challenger Rep. Tom Harkin. But Iowa seems to have a distaste for incumbents--no senator has won a second term there since 1966 Senate Majority leader Howard Baker's decision to step down in Tennessee induced the popular Democrat Rep. Albert Gore Jr. to make a bid for the seat. Gore will probably benefit from a fractious Reublican primary, in which an extreme right-wing religious leader has been viciously attacking his moderate...