Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have them, and with little contradiction. He monopolizes news-media coverage. He injects excitement into state contests that have evoked ennui. Hence the President will have covered at least 22 states in the campaign's final 21 days. Last week he sent Pat to Michigan, Minnesota, Florida and Nevada; Spiro Agnew continued to sweep across the country juggernaut-style, scourging radic-libs (see ESSAY...
...just getting under way when the statesmen's words of peace were upstaged by the contrapuntal sounds of a world still preparing for doomsday. The discordant notes came from Novaya Zemlya on the Arctic Circle, from Lop Nor in China's Sinkiang province, and from the Nevada desert. For the first time since the nuclear era was born (like the U.N., just 25 years ago), the Soviet Union, Communist China and the U.S. all exploded experimental nuclear weapons on the same...
...NEVADA: Democratic Senator Howard W. Cannon is a chief target of the Nixon-Agnew guns. Cannon has opened himself to the radicalliberal charge by voting against Haynsworth, Carswell, and the ABM as well as for the Cooper-Church Amendment. These votes took courage, for Nevada is a conservative state, and Cannon's opponent, Republican Rep. William Raggio, has made the most of them. Raggio is a strong law-and-order, victory-in-Vietnam man, and his election to the Senate would be a big boost to the Administration. Agnew has made several trips to the state to aid Raggio...
...race is rated a tossup, but Cannon has several plusses which could bring him victory. The two most important are his seniority (12 years in the Senate) and Nevada's traditional distrust of outsiders which may cause Agnew's efforts to backfire on the Republicans...
UTAH: Lacklustre Senator Frank E. Moss is in the same kind of trouble as his neighbor Howard Cannon of Nevada. Moss faces a strong challenge of a conservative, Administration backed Republican, Laurence J. Burton. Burton has made full use of the Agnew techniques and of Agnew himself, and in Utah this is powerful medicine...