Word: pittsburgher
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Elsewhere, the Pittsburgh Steelers rebounded from last week's loss to bury the Chicago Bears, 38-3; the Cleveland Browns outscored the Tampa Bay Bucaneers, 34-27; the Dallas Cowboys whipped the Green Bay Packers, 28-7; the Houston Oilers slipped by the Cincinnati Bengals, 13-10; the Los Angeles Rams routed the New Jersey Giants, 28-7; and the Seattle Seahawks blanked the Washington Redskins, 14-0. Compiled from Wire Dispatches
East is east and west is west, as Kipling knew, but in Pennsylvania the twain meet regularly, in bitter contests for public office between politicians from Philadelphia and those from the Pittsburgh area. This year the prize is the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Richard Schweiker. The contestants are Democratic former Mayor Peter Flaherty, 55, of Pittsburgh and Republican former District Attorney Arlen Specter, 50, of Philadelphia...
...candidates both have a history of losing. Flaherty, despite plaudits from many western Pennsylvania voters for having faced down Pittsburgh's municipal unions and cut the city payroll by about 25% while he was mayor in 1970-77, lost the Senate race against Schweiker in 1974 and the Governor's race against Republican Richard Thornburgh in 1978, partly because of insufficient support in Philadelphia. Specter, a household name in Philadelphia as a crusading district attorney in 1966-74, lost the 1976 Republican Senate primary to John Heinz and the 1978 gubernatorial primary to Thornburgh, partly because he could...
...race thus boils down mostly to a choice between personalities. Specter has hired Campaign Consultant David Garth, who has put together a series of TV ads that portray the ex-D.A. as a man who would serve all Pennsylvanians, from the poor in Philadelphia to the steelworkers in Pittsburgh. Specter has also amassed a war chest of $1 million, including $525,000 from state and national Republican committees. Flaherty, whose previous campaigns were managed by his wife, has taken elocution lessons from a college debate coach and hired Washington Pollster Peter Hart, who advised him to stress his record...