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A RECENT CARTOON for the Des Moines Register said it all. It showed one skunk with the face of Republican Senator Roger W. Jepsen and another skunk with the face of Democratic Representative Tom Harkin. The two were spraying each other to death.
Although his actions have prompted scorn and snickering during his campaign for a second term, two things usually fatal to a politician, the fervently conservative Senator has demonstrated a Teflon resistance to lasting taint. The Des Moines Register poll conducted last spring showed him 16 points behind his opponent, Democratic...
Voters in Iowa have established a tradition of tossing out incumbent Senators, having disposed of two of them in that fashion over the past six years. They may be set to reinforce the pattern. The victim would be conservative Republican Roger Jepsen, who is being challenged by five-term liberal...
In June Premier fought back by hiring Ray Conley, a Des Moines lawyer who specializes in catching airwave pirates. Conley searched for microwave antennas whose style differed from those issued by Premier and then used an electronic device to find out which ones were receiving Premier's signals.
It is not only athletes and coaches who are tired of such pointless fakery. "To ignore reality is stupid, and that's what we're doing," says Robert Helmick, a Des Moines lawyer who is a vice president of the U.S.O.C. Helmick also points out, however, that the...