Word: pacificism
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Voters in North Idaho, which is part of the Pacific Time Zone, were crucial in both the Senate and the House election. Descendents of miners and loggers--union laborers who voted Democratic--the people remain highly dependent on natural resource industries for their living, creating some rightward-leanings.
Coopersmith is a temperate liberal--he's pro-environment, wants a bigger budget for Superfund hazardous-waste cleanups and improved habitat for Pacific salmon; and he's strongly pro-choice. But he favors the death penalty and supported a labor-union decertification, which has made it harder for him to...
BORN: Nov. 30, 1927, Marysville EDUCATION: Pacific Lutheran U, B.A., 1951 FAMILY: Wife, Norma Grant; four children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: Army, 1946-47 OCCUPATION: Teacher; bed-and- breakfast owner POLITICAL CAREER: Washington House, 1961-65, Senate, 1967-75, 1981-93; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O Box 3371, Everett 98203. Tel...
Locke, who spent two years as a manager at the Hanford Reservation's Pacific Northwest National Lab, has alleged that opponent Richard Hastings didn't object forcefully enough to an implicit threat by presidential candidate Bob Dole to cut funding for the Lab if he is elected. But in a...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Any strategy we have for diversifying our economy has to be built around the [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory]...It's a huge, wonderful $70 million complex, and to threaten the resources there would be wasteful."