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...G.O.P. would dearly like to win the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat David Pryor and persuaded Hutchinson, who was considered a shoo-in for re-election in the traditionally Republican Third District, to take a chance. Hutchinson, a balanced-budget hawk who proposed tough welfare restrictions for unwed mothers, is now declaring his respect for Pryor, vowing to protect Medicare and pledging to give workers a bigger take-home check...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The people of Arkansas deserve a Senator who will continue to uphold the great legacy of David Pryor...I want...this race to focus on the issues that affect everyday Arkansas...
...Hank Brown, R-Colo. William S. Cohen, R-Maine Bob Dole, R-Kans. Jim Exon, D-Neb. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore. Howell Heflin, D-Ala. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kans. Sam Nunn, D-Ga. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. David Pryor, D-Ark. Paul Simon, D-Ill. Alan K. Simpson...
...Clinton aide called Morris down from New York, and Morris did some polling that helped Clinton decide to declare for Governor. Since that race proved to be a breeze, Clinton and Morris worked together with far more intensity on a concurrent campaign in 1978, helping Governor David Pryor in his successful race for the Senate against Jim Guy Tucker, a rival whom Clinton wanted to see defeated. Clinton and Morris became Pryor's consultants, with Clinton writing ad copy, Morris revising it. In that context, Morris once said, he came to see Clinton as "a highly sophisticated colleague" who knew...
...swift action taken to remove Bernice Harris when a male aide to G.O.P. Senator Mitch McConnell cried harassment after being called "baby" by the 58-year-old cashier, who has been dishing up food and Southern endearments for 30 years in the Capitol. Fortunately, staff members in Senator David Pryor's office, who eat at "Bernice's" every day, found out she had quit rather than be transferred, even though she was just short of qualifying for her full pension. A letter-writing campaign got her reinstated. McConnell's spokesman says "allowances have to be made" because the complainant...