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...Republican side, State Sen. Paul Cellucci of Marlboro is running on an unofficial slate with gubernatorial candidate William F. Weld '66. We support Cellucci for much the same reasons we support his running mate--both are fiscally conservative but progressive on social issues such as abortion...
...faced up to the difficult task of telling an aging colleague that she was no longer capable of handling a high state office? Those clashing views of Democratic Governor James Blanchard have bedeviled Michigan voters ever since he dropped Lieutenant Governor Martha Griffiths, 78, as his re-election running mate...
...term Congresswoman who is widely revered by state Democrats, is not shy about expressing her opinion. "I elected him," she says of Blanchard, who talked her into joining him on the ticket in his tight 1982 race. When rumors arose last spring that Blanchard might choose a new running mate in seeking a third four-year term this year, she snapped, "He should be taken immediately to a psychiatrist." And as Blanchard spread his hopeful view that Griffiths might quietly withdraw, she called a press conference to proclaim that she was "available" to run again. Finally, following his announcement that...
...Blanchard faced complaints of age and sex discrimination in his treatment of Griffiths, his major Republican opponent, state senate majority leader John Engler, seized the opening to announce that his running mate will be Connie Binsfeld, 66, a bland state senator and antiabortion activist. Blanchard countered by selecting Olivia Maynard, 54, who has been popular with senior citizens as director of the state office of services to the aging, to replace Griffiths. Ever loyal to her party, Griffiths said she will support / Blanchard's re-election. And, presumably, she will continue to inquire about his health...
...Africa. Artists' renderings of pitched battles in which a triceratops tries to gore a tyrannosaurus in the belly are misleading. Triceratops was more likely to use its horns as a modern deer uses its antlers, not mainly for battle but to establish dominance in the herd and attract a mate...