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...having a woman on their ticket, since it is Ronald Reagan who is struggling to close the gender gap. Moreover, the Republicans might have an easier time picking a top-drawer female candidate. "We would be in a better a position than the Democrats," says Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 51, who heads the list of her party's female vice-presidential prospects, "because we have more qualified women...
...nationally prominent women. Among the most well-known names: Transportation Secretary Elizabeth ("Liddy") Hanford Dole, 47; Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler, 52; Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 54; and Anne Armstrong, 56, former Ambassador to Britain. The only other woman in the Senate besides Kassebaum is also a Republican, Florida's Paula Hawkins, 57. Although she has always been a registered Democrat, United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, 57, has become an honorary Republican with her highly visible, aggressively anti-Communist role in the Reagan Administration...
...Nancy Kassebaum, 51. She is one of the Senate's two women (the other: Republican Paula Hawkins) and scion of Alf Landon, the 1936 G.O.P. presidential nominee. A moderate on economic and social issues, Kassebaum has supported the ERA and legalized abortion...
...gates of the polling station 45 minutes before it opened. All across the country, roads were thronged with people hiking long miles to the polls because the guerrillas had sabotaged many of the country's buses. People waited as long as eight hours to vote. Marveled Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, head of the U.S. observer delegation: "I don't know of any Kansans who would wait even two hours...
...official U.S. observer contingent: Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Congressmen John Murtha and Robert Livingston, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Everett Briggs, University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, former University of California President Clark Kerr and Pollsters Richard Scammon and Howard Penniman...