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...nominate the liberals and out-liberal the Democrats," says Gordon Nelson, a former state party chairman and a leader of the party's right wing. "Richardson is the type of candidate who used to win in this state, but no longer. That strategy doesn't work here anymore...
...Nelson cites a string of liberal republican candidates, including Sears in 1982, gubernatorial candidate Francis W. Hatch, Jr. in '78, and Senator Ed Brooke in '78, who lost to Democrats. The reason, he says, is that they did not represent their real constituency, the working class Republicans and the conservative Democrats that booted Dukakis out of office in '78 in favor of right-wing Democrat Edward J. King...
...Republican moderates and liberals argue that the party's problems stem not from too liberal candidates, but rather from the Republican leadership's drift toward the right. They say the party's fortunes reached a nadir under the leadership of the likes of Gordon Nelson, whom Sears describes as "not only in right field but beyond the foul pole...
Last week Secretary of Justice Nelson Martinez Acosta announced orders to arrest four people for murdering Vigoreaux. The stunning news: Echevarría was one of them. Acting on "motives of passion," Martinez charged, Echevarría offered a three-man contract-murder team more than $25,000 to do away with her husband. One of the deal's stipulations, the Secretary said, was that the hired team torture the victim before killing him. The trio brought along a fourth member to act as driver; he agreed to testify for the state in return for immunity from prosecution. Echevarr...
...picture is not entirely bleak. The new season has received an early boost from an unlikely summer hit. Helped by massive promotion during the Olympics, ABC's Call to Glory, an earnest drama about an Air Force family in the early 1960s starring Craig T. Nelson, drew good enough ratings after its mid-August premiere to land a spot on the fall schedule. Its patriotic appeal has won the approval of President Reagan, but the show appears to have more complex ambitions: on one recent episode, the family got involved in a local battle over racial discrimination. Call...