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...Iowa, Republican incumbent Roger W. Jepsen, has also closed a polling gap on his Democratic challenger Rep. Tom Harkin. But Iowa seems to have a distaste for incumbents--no senator has won a second term there since 1966 Senate Majority leader Howard Baker's decision to step down in Tennessee induced the popular Democrat Rep. Albert Gore Jr. to make a bid for the seat. Gore will probably benefit from a fractious Reublican primary, in which an extreme right-wing religious leader has been viciously attacking his moderate...
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 lands the Democratic presidential nomination. Mondale's ticket would rouse a strong Democratic turnout at the Minnesota polls in November...
...sheer persuasive power. There was to be no modification of the sale, only the endless assertion that, like it or not, the legislators dare not undermine him. Iowa Republican Roger Jepsen, a leader of the anti-AWACS forces, whose switch to Reagan's side the day before the vote signaled that the President would prevail, candidly admitted: "The situation hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed...
...breakthrough occurred at the beginning of the week with the defection of one of the sale's most vocal opponents, Republican Roger Jepsen of Iowa, a New Right conservative who had cited biblical arguments on Israel's behalf. "This sale must be stopped," he told a cheering audience of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in May. The White House knew that he was weakening, and turned up the heat. Reagan reminded Jepsen that he had personally helped him win his seat in 1978. But the President also sent him to the funeral of Israel's Moshe...
...determining factor in his decision, Jepsen said, was the type of presidential persuasion that is the hardest to counter: in a private meeting with Reagan he had been given some "highly classified" information that lessened his fears about the sale's danger to Israel's security. After spending "all weekend" talking with his strongly pro-Israeli wife, Jepsen went to the Senate and stunned opponents with his defection. Said he: "A vote for the sale is a vote for my President and his successful conduct of foreign policy." Along with Jepsen came his conservative Iowa colleague Grassley...