Word: hunted
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...Americans reject his ferocious New Right ideology, while millions of others share his many resentments-of Government, of feminism, blacks and modern life itself. At home in North Carolina, Helms' antagonists were in the minority: he was re-elected to his third Senate term against Moderate James B. Hunt Jr., 47, the state's outgoing Governor, with 53% of the vote...
...election concerned the Senate only nominally. Both sides cast the race as a stark moral referendum. Helms called his right-wing philosophy "the cause of a Christian nation." Hunt described the race as "a historic chance to say what kind of people we are" and spoke darkly of the "radical right wing" that a Helms triumph would encourage to "take over this country." As Hunt politicked Tuesday night at a Raleigh polling place, he had a final, frustrating, emblematic campaign encounter. A young woman declined to shake his hand. "I'm sorry," she said...
...assailants in all cases are Great Whites, which can grow to more than 20 ft. long and weigh up to 3½ tons. Many biologists trace the sharks' increasing aggression to recent rulings like the U.S. Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972. That law makes it illegal to hunt pinnipeds like sea lions, elephant seals and sea otters, all staples of an adult shark's diet. Fifteen elephant seals lived in the Red Triangle area in 1961; by 1984 there were 5,000. The sea lion population has been increasing by 5% a year. As a result, Great...
Barfield spent her last months crocheting dolls for two of her grandchildren, reading religious literature and talking to reporters, who dubbed her the Death Row Granny. Democratic Governor James Hunt, locked in a tight race to win Republican Jesse Helms' Senate seat, refused to grant clemency, and last week her final court appeal was rejected. At 2 a.m. on Friday, wearing pink pajamas, Barfield was executed by lethal injection at North Carolina Central Prison. She said, "I am sorry for all the hurt I have caused...
...Hampshire Norm D. Amours (D) 65.349 42 58 E--Gordon Humphrey (R) 90.434 58 New Jersey E--Bill Bradley (D) 1677.539 61 90 Mary Mochary (R) 927.231 36 New Mexico Judy Pratt (D) 119.198 28 85 E--Pete (R) 303.313 72 North Carolina (D) Jim Hunt (D) 809.088 48 79 E--Jesse Helms (R) 869.287 52 Oklahoma E--David Borens (D) 707 717 76 84 Bill Croner (R) 212.217 23 Oregon Marge Hendrikson (D) 71.992 34 28 E--Mark Hatheld (R) 140 713 66 Rhode Island E--Claiborne Pell (D) 276.245 73 99 Barbara Leonard (R) 103.294 27 South Carolina...