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Demonstration organizers have said they favor quieter methods of protest because "we didn't think that [stronger forms of protest] would work here now," according to Ivette Pena, the incoming chair of Alianza, a Hispanic students' organization. Pena added that Alianza would continue its negotiation with the administration over the next academic year, but "we don't want to be forced to take harsher measures...
...slambang political fight, complete with barrages of print and TV ads, one crafted by George Bush's campaign guru Roger Ailes. Colorado Governor Roy Romer and Denver Mayor Federico Pena politicked incessantly around town. When the vote came in, several hundred giddy campaign workers shouted themselves hoarse in a jammed downtown hotel ballroom. The turnout, 41% of registered voters, would have been respectable for a congressional or gubernatorial election. In fact, the balloting was a special election in which Denver residents last Tuesday voted 63% to 37% to build a $2.3 billion new airport -- the first to be constructed...
...have shriveled; the average Denver house is priced at $79,900, down 15% in two years. Last year more people moved out of the area than moved in for the first time since the Depression years of the 1930s. In that climate, voters bought the promises of Romer and Pena that a new airport would mean jobs and prosperity. "What you heard today from the voters was the sound of Denver taking off!" shouted Pena on election night. Branding such talk a "psychological aphrodisiac," retired Rear Admiral Richard Young, who led the opposition, declared, "Somehow, by voting for the airport...
...Romer, Pena and other boosters decried the frequent and long delays that have already become legendary at Stapleton, a point seconded by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner on a visit during the campaign. The field's two main runways are too close together for simultaneous instrument landings; in bad weather only one can be used. Airport planners contend that a new field could be financed without any tax money. They expect to receive $500 million from Washington and to raise the rest by selling bonds that would be redeemed by fees charged to airlines and concessionaires...
Alejandro Pena, who saved the game for winner Tim Belcher, got Gary Carter to fly out to right field for the final out of the game. Los Angeles gave New York starter David Cone a quick exit with a four-run inning in the second...