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From the moment of his appointment last May following the death of Republican John Heinz in a plane crash, Wofford, a Great Society liberal, began transforming himself into a Huey Long-like Democratic populist. In one early move, Wofford rejected the $150,000 he was supposed to receive for mass mailing expenses. In another, he renounced the $23,200 pay raise the Senate had voted itself. "There's a national recession out there," said Wofford. "Now is no time for us to be paying ourselves more of our taxpayers' hard- earned dollars." Wofford gave the extra money to a charity...
...results of this election will no doubt make a big difference in Congress this year since Democrats keep their majority of 57 to 43, created when Wofford was picked by Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey to replace Republican Sen. John Heinz, who died last spring. Wofford's election also make a big difference to President Bush and the way he is going to have to run his presidential campaign. In the first place, the results are going to insure that he even has to run a presidential campaign...
...insider and a quintessential Reagan/Bush Republican. Thornburgh had all the advantages in this campaign. He had a large bank roll--his opponents had to solicit money in television commercials. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania twice. Then he left the state to work for the Reagan administration. And until Heinz's death, he was Bush's Attorney General. Thornburgh tried running a campaign on the coattails of the current administration. He actually said voters should elect him because he knows "the corridors of power." Bush personally campaigned for Thornburgh three times...
...deaths of Rizzo and Heinz were unexpected, and Democrats were able to make the openings in the political scene work for them. The significance of these results for the rest of the nation has to take into consideration that this was not a normal convergence of events...
...addition to the five Harvard representatives--all outstanding forwards--Team USA includes names collegiate hockey fans are well familiar with. Marty McInnis, Dave Emma, Steve Heinz, Keith Tchakuk and slew of other slick scorers will all take the ice tonight...