Word: mel
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Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan--who died in a plane crash Oct. 16--in his race against Republican opponent...
...previously only visited as a tourist. Meanwhile, Gore, who won't share a stage with Clinton, finds himself in a dead heat for an office he should take in a walk. The couples were together for the first time since the Democratic Convention, attending the funeral of Governor Mel Carnahan. There were the obligatory air kisses and handshakes, followed by awkward efforts to get away from one another as fast as possible...
...weeks ago, Missouri's freshman senator, John Ashcroft, running neck-and-neck against the state's Democratic governor, Mel Carnahan, appeared to have been handed the race when Carnahan was killed in an air crash. Ashcroft said and did all the right things in the face of the tragedy, suspending his campaign and paying tribute to his opponent...
...Monday, Mrs. Carnahan announced she would accept Wilson's appointment to the Senate if her husband were to win the seat. "It's what Mel would have wanted me to do," she told a crowd gathered in Rolla, Mo. Is it what she wants to do? Perhaps. Mrs. Carnahan was apparently moved by Cokie Roberts' encouragement, who recounted her own mother's ascent to politics after her father, Louisiana representative Hale Boggs, disappeared in a plane over Alaska. The campaign, Roberts told Carnahan, helped her mother overcome her grief. And it's quite possible that simple self-preservation has been...
...DIED. MEL CARNAHAN, 66, Missouri Governor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate; in a plane crash; near St. Louis, Mo. Elected Governor in 1992, he famously stood by tough decisions despite political aftershocks--such as honoring Pope John Paul II's request that he stay the execution of a murderer. Carnahan's son Randy, 44, who piloted the plane, and a top aide, Chris Sifford, 37, were also killed in the accident...