Word: issa
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Four years later, California Republicans are falling over one another to distance themselves from Wilson and anything that even hints of anti-Latino bias. Republican senatorial candidate Darrell Issa says he opposes making the children of illegal immigrants leave school. Aides to his primary opponent, state treasurer Matt Fong, claim the antiimmigrant rhetoric surrounding Prop. 187 left their man "greatly disturbed." Advisers to Lungren admit that he backed 187 but stress that his endorsement was late and lukewarm. As for Wilson, he didn't even attend the G.O.P.'s state convention last February, and a party strategist calls the outgoing...
Republican leaders are trying everything from mea culpas to community breakfasts. For the job of state political director, the party has hired a 26-year-old Mexican-American operative named Mike Madrid, who wrote his college thesis on how the G.O.P. could win Latino votes. Senatorial candidates Issa and Fong are both running Spanish-language ads. And over the course of the year, the party will hold nine "Hispanic summits" in different parts of the state...
...spent at least $100,000 of their own money on their campaigns. Nineteen spent $1 million or more. And with nearly a full year to go before the 1998 elections, 133 House hopefuls have plunked down at least $50,000 of their own cash. In California, Senate candidate Darrell Issa, a car-alarm magnate, has pledged to put up as much as $14 million--and that's just to win the primary...
...says a U.S. State Department official, "but how long can the Israelis tolerate these attacks?" Israel may have bought some time with the arrest of the 10 Hamas members, plus the 20 more picked up after the Jerusalem bombing. Among those detained in the first roundup was Abdel Nasser Issa, the alleged ringleader and bombmaker in both recent attacks. Israeli officials believe that Issa's network was one of the pillars of Hamas' military wing in the West Bank and that by breaking it, they foiled Hamas' plans for at least four more suicide bombings and the kidnapping...
...past Hamas publicly celebrated successful suicide bombers, but it was the Israelis who, after their investigation of Issa's ring, announced the identities of Sufiyan Jabbarin, 26, the Jerusalem bomber, and his Ramat Gan counterpart, Labib Azzam, 22. Hamas' silence, activists say, was meant to conceal the identities of the bombers' accomplices. "We don't want Israeli security to know the circles from which we are operating," says Amjad, who is connected to the Hamas military wing in the Gaza Strip...