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...IRRELEVANT is whether the couple had been sexually intimate before. Are we to assume that once a woman sleeps with someone she is rightfully his thereafter? This attitude is only a more modern version of the one exhibited by those who oppose the criminalization of spousal rape. Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton couldn't have put this offensive idea more eloquently: "When a man gets married he expects he's going to get a little...
...appeal of the Reagan message has no doubt helped the Southern branch of the class of '80, ultraconservative Republicans with unremarkable first-term records, like Mack Mattingly of Georgia and Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. The latest polls show Mattingly leading his underfunded liberal rival, Congressman Wyche Fowler, by 18 points. The factious and disorganized Democratic Party in Alabama has been unable to help Congressman Richard Shelby wage an effective attack; he trails Denton by nearly 25 points...
...dwindling moderate contingent within the state's lagging second party, including party chief Andrew S. Natsios, had reportedly favored another candidate for the office--former Massachusetts Bar Association President Wayne A. Budd. Two other candidates were Robert S. Mueller Jr., now the state's first assistant U.S. attorney, and Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan, who heads the Justice Department's Organized Strike Force...
...part, the Catholic Church officially remained relatively low-keyed during the referendum campaign. But when the going got tough, so did some of the clergy. "God says no to divorce," pronounced Bishop Jeremiah Newman of Limerick...
...Alabama, Democratic Congressman Richard Shelby, a conservative, won the Senate nomination resoundingly, and is expected to run a tight race against first-term Republican Jeremiah Denton. Alabama was also the stage for another historic primary, this one for the office occupied for 16 years by Governor George Wallace, who announced in April that he had "climbed my last political mountain." Having failed to win a majority, Wallace's Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley, who was endorsed by blacks, teachers and labor unions, now faces a runoff later this month against his runner-up, conservative Attorney General Charles Graddick...