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...bringing the new G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Among the big-name Democrats felled by voters were Tennessee's Jim Sasser and Pennsylvania's Harris Wofford. A number of struggling Democrats survived: Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, Virginia's Charles Robb (who beat out controversial Iran-contra figure Oliver North) and, apparently, California's Dianne Feinstein. Kansas' Bob Dole, a possible presidential contender, will become the new Senate majority leader. Colleagues in line to head key committees include Strom Thurmond at Armed Services, Jesse Helms at Foreign Relations, Orrin Hatch at Judiciary and Alfonse D'Amato...
Major General U.S.A.F. (ret.) Richard Secord, Iran-contra alum; procured a pricey home-security system for Ollie North: "Close National Airport, but you can't do that politically; Congressmen like to have their perks. Move the White House to Denver...
...fruit attack never came, but in his bid to unseat Charles Robb as the state's junior U.S. Senator, the retired Marine colonel and damp-eyed star of the Iran-contra hearings has been doing a lot of ducking and counterattacking in a campaign that has turned Virginia's political season into a freak show. The race reached new levels of notoriety last week when Nancy Reagan, during a public appearance in New York City, blasted North's veracity. "Ollie North has a great deal of trouble separating fact from fantasy. He lied to my husband...
Indeed, the North-Robb race has proved to be a rich source of comic material. David Letterman drew up a Top 10 List of mock campaign slogans for North. No. 7 was, "A man of convictions. None of them pending." (North's three convictions in the Iran-contra case were overturned on a technicality.) And Garry Trudeau featured North as arrogant and a chronic prevaricator in his syndicated Doonesbury comic strip last week...
Even as Oliver North, the G.O.P. candidate for Senator from Virginia, continued to hammer away at Democratic incumbent Charles Robb's extramarital indiscretions, voters were reminded of ghosts in North's own closet. North paraded former Iran-contra players Edwin Meese and Elliott Abrams to vouch for his integrity. Meanwhile, Nancy Reagan publicly called North a liar...