Word: raced
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WASHINGTON--California lawmakers pressed for $3.8 billion in earthquake aid yesterday, more than $1 billion above the White House figure, as federal relief legislation began a race through Congress...
...choice groups have pumped time and money into campaigns against Coleman and Courter. Last week NARAL previewed a pair of anti-Coleman commercials it has produced for the Virginia race. In New Jersey the group expects to spend $100,000 on Florio's behalf. The organization also plans to contact 50,000 specially selected G.O.P. and independent voters who might be persuaded to support him solely on the basis of his pro-choice stance. "Abortion is now a dominant issue in American politics," says Kate Michelman, NARAL's executive director. Pro-choice activists are doing everything they can to keep...
...Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) became a vehicle through which once powerless nonwhites exerted new political influence. The ( party, in turn, benefited from its tight relationship with the PDF, which dispensed patronage favors. Thus, when the U.S. demands Noriega's resignation, it steps into Panama's complex mix of race and class politics. "This is a battle that is much larger than Noriega," says a senior official of the P.R.D. "Bush's people say they have no quarrel with the military. The problem is that the old-line oligarchs would use Noriega's expulsion as a chance to take back what...
Within the military, Noriega too has played the race issue shrewdly, promoting nonwhite officers and giving the predominantly nonwhite enlisted ranks new perks. He has traditionally stocked the post exchanges with ample and affordable consumer goods and protected the pay of enlisted men against U.S. economic sanctions. But as the angry general now wreaks revenge on his military foes, he runs the danger of straining the old loyalties. The distrust, hatred and fear injected into the army are a potentially combustible...
...already encouraged several in Florida. Though he had expected to be easily renominated by his party for next year's gubernatorial race, Martinez must now overcome a primary challenge from pro-choice Republican State Senator Marlene Woodson-Howard. Anxious not to revive old charges that he is an indecisive leader, Martinez has vowed to reintroduce the defeated bills when the legislature meets in regular session next April. He dismisses the notion that he may have suffered politically. "When you're functioning out of conviction," he says, "you can't think of politics...