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Still, don't look for bars to pop up all over the Sooner State anytime soon; the vote to give Oklahoma's 77 counties the right to decide individually whether they will allow bars was extremely close--425,155 to 396,600, according to the Daily Oklahoman. And in fact, in only 17 of the counties did a majority of voters call for amending the bar against having bars...
...congressional races most eagerly targeted by the Republicans is the reelection bid of Oklahoma Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee. Jones has incurred the Reaganauts' wrath by forcing them to compromise on Administration spending measures on the grounds that the budget deficit was growing too fast. Though his reputation nationally is that of a moderate conservative, the Republicans have portrayed him in Oklahoma as a free-spending liberal. Both Jones and his opponent, Frank Keating, a former FBI agent and U.S. attorney, are financing expensive campaigns with a blizzard of cash donated by party election funds...
...Jaycees did not abolish their women's chapters, which have 59,700 members. Indeed, some of the women want to hold on to their separate status. Said Suzanne Stephens, president of Oklahoma Jaycee Women: "It would be more progressive to keep two organizations be cause we are giving men the opportunity to do their thing and women to do their thing...
...Democratic Senators David Boren of Oklahoma and William Proxmire of Wisconsin; Democratic Congressmen Anthony Beilenson of California, Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana and William Natcher of Kentucky; Republican Congressmen Bill Archer of Texas, William Goodling of Pennsylvania, Willis Gradison Jr. of Ohio, Jim Leach of Iowa and Ralph Regula of Ohio...
...selection initially caused controversy, led the team with 18 points against France, and again with 17 against a West German team that gave the U.S. its closest thing to a scare, losing by only 78-67. Two better-known players, Ewing and 6-ft. 9-in. Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma, at first spent a lot of time on the bench because they were not adroit enough at defense to please Knight, whose Indiana teams have won six Big Ten titles and two N.C.A.A. championships with smothering man-to-man play. Indeed, the coach's favorite player was Jordan...