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Tomorrow also will be the preliminary council election, which will narrow down the field for the November election for the nine spots on the Boston council. Political observers say that these races are key to Flynn, who is looking to gain his first majority on the council. The issue of rent control, which is supported by Flynn, has dominated the debate during this campaign...
...candidate for the Democratic nomination. Bork's most fervent support will come from two conservative Republicans, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch. Later, when the issue reaches the Senate floor, Minority Leader Robert Dole will head the fight on Bork's behalf. The three key swing votes on the committee: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Last week DeConcini still did not know what to make of the controversial jurist. "I have read so much," he told TIME. "Sometimes he sounds like a moderate. At other...
...present the nominee as a mainstream jurist who decides cases with a completely open mind. "If you want someone with Justice Powell's detachment and statesmanship," said the President in a speech last July, "you can't do better than Judge Bork." The White House distributed to key Senators a 70-page briefing book outlining many of Bork's rulings and proclaiming that the judge was a model practitioner of "judicial restraint...
Only a week earlier the Libyans had managed to reverse a string of Chadian victories by retaking a key oasis town near the border. Angered by the setback at Maaten es Sarra, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi last week ordered a retaliatory air strike on N'Djamena. But as two Soviet-built Tupolev-22 bombers approached the capital, French troops fired a U.S.-made Hawk antiaircraft missile. One of the jets exploded in a green phosphorescent fireball, and the other fled toward Libya. Two other Tupolevs later struck the town of Abeche, some 400 miles to the east, killing two civilians...
...reality of politics played its part. The Washington Post tallied the number of days in August that she combined Transportation Department travel , with campaign stops in key primary states. (The Government and the campaign split the costs of the trips.) She disputes the figures: it was 18 days, not 21, and only 11 were weekdays. "I wonder too," she retorts, "is there a difference between candidates retaining their jobs in Government and a spouse?" Dole doesn't single out the Vice President by name, nor does she use the harsh-sounding term double standard. But she implies it with...