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...increasingly widespread. Earlier this month the Defense Department announced it will screen all 2.1 million active-duty military personnel for exposure to the AIDS virus. Last week Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. began requiring AIDS tests for large-policy applicants in five "high-risk" states: California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and Texas, as well as in Washington, D.C. The company explained that $2.5 million of its life-insurance claims this year have involved AIDS victims...
...entrepreneurial ventures, from insurance and real estate to a car-rental agency and a florist business. Asked eleven years ago to invest in a radio station, he decided instead to learn more about the business from the inside and began doing a local "ombudsman's show" in New Jersey. After a stint at New York City's WMCA, in 1981 he joined NBC's newly created Talknet, a nightly package of talk shows now heard on 238 stations...
Three Democrats triumphed in traditionally Republican Virginia, and the party crowed. A Republican Governor waltzed to re-election in predominantly Democratic New Jersey, and the G.O.P. cheered. Incumbent mayors, regardless of party, breezed to victories just about everywhere and were smugly confident...
...good feeling and continued prosperity, voters in last week's humdrum off-year elections thumped for the status quo. New Jersey's Republican Governor Tom Kean, who won by only 1,797 votes four years ago, crushed his young Democratic challenger, Peter Shapiro. In a state where just 20% of the voters identify themselves as Republicans, Kean won more than 70% of the vote and every major city and district. The G.O.P., hitching a ride on the Kean juggernaut, achieved a majority in the state assembly for the first time in more than a decade...
While Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf boasted that Kean's victory "destroys the old Democratic coalition," others argued that it was simply a vote of confidence for an amiable Governor who had turned New Jersey's $500 million deficit into a $600 million surplus and reduced the state unemployment rate from 9% to 5%. " Kean, who has approved the withdrawal of New Jersey investments from companies doing business in South Africa, won more than 60% of the black vote and was endorsed by the state's AFL-CIO. In what may become a model for moderate Republicans, the Governor...