Word: kassebaum
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While such lessons may be inspiring, they are not likely to sweep a large number of women into office. Women's groups christened 1990 the Political Year of the Woman, but only one of the seven women who ran for the Senate last year, Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected; she voted for Thomas last week. In Congress pro-choice activists have helped pass a bill to overturn the gag rule that now forbids doctors to discuss abortion at federally funded clinics, but they cannot muster enough votes to override Bush's veto. Next week the Senate will take...
COVER Computer-altered State of the Union photograph for TIME by Diana Walker. Inset heads (clockwise from lower left): Carroll Campbell by Diana Walker; Dick Cheney by Jacques Witt -- Sipa Press; Nancy Kassebaum by Ann States -- SABA; Pete Wilson by Ed Andersen; Colin Powell by Robert Trippett -- Sipa Press
...year, which has enabled it to hire 368 more financial-fraud investigators, as well as 202 FBI agents and 118 more assistant U.S. attorneys. Congress may provide further help. One bill would create "strike forces" to investigate fraud and provide higher salaries for prosecutors of bank crimes. Says Nancy Kassebaum, the Kansas Republican who introduced the measure in the Senate last week: "It is time to take off the gloves and unleash our best and brightest prosecutors on the mess...