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The celebrated North Carolina race--which some say will overshadow the Presidential race in rhetoric if not reality--pits the scourge of right wing conservatism, Sen. Jesse Helms, against Democratic Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr. Polls taken late last year put the popular Hunt-progressive in Southern terms--ahead of...
Other vulnerable Republican Senators include Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who, like Helms and Jepsen, has trailed his Democratic challenger in polls, Gordon J. Humphrey of New Hampshire, and Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota. Observers say Walter F. Mondale, also from Minnesota, could play a role in Boschwitz's fate, if he...
Officials in Washington cite him as having prevented attempts by Sen Jesse Helms (D.N.C) to stop the Supreme Court of jurisdiction on civil rights issues such as busing, abortion and school prayer. The failure of the proposed Helms-Johnson Amendment, according to many observers, helped preserve the independence of the...
But the thwarting of Helms's attack on the courts is hardly the only feather in Shattuck's hat In 1974, four years out of Yale Law School and working as a litigator for the ACLU. Shattuck represented Morton H. Halperin in his suit against the government at the height...
"As a young child," writes Stamaty of his hapless antihero, Congressman Bob Forehead, "young Bobby had one ambition; to host a TV quiz show." Instead, the wayward actor--who bears a less-than-coincidental resemblance to Rep. Jack Kemp (R.N.Y.)--becomes the political pawn of Gerard V. Oxboggle, president of...