Word: robbe
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Contradictory results in the two races suggest that if they were meant as a down-home test of Reagan's popularity, the nation is a house divided. As soon as the quirky results were in, a thudding defeat for Coleman by Democrat Charles Robb in normally Republican Virginia, and an apparent narrow victory for Kean over Democrat James Florio in normally Democratic New Jersey, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes proclaimed the elections were emphatically not "a referendum on the President himself or the President's economic policies...
...Virginia's bitter campaign, Reagan was scarcely an issue. Winner Robb, a conservative by principle and a pragmatist by practice, simply refused to attack him. Said Robb: "It's clear that President Reagan is very popular." At least as much an issue was another President, almost 13 years out of office. The late Lyndon B. Johnson, father of the Great Society, was also the father of Robb's wife Lynda Bird. Her mother, Lady Bird, gave $25,410 to the campaign. Robb nonetheless remained studiously distant from Johnson too. A popular but powerless Lieutenant Governor since...
WASHINGTON -- Democrat Charles S. Robb was elected governor of Virginia last night despite appeals from President Reagan to support the Republican, Marshall Coleman...
Virginia. Republican Governor John Daton last week vetoed a hotly contested bill that would have provided funds for abortions in cases of rape, incest or gross fetal abnormality. The Governor felt the bill was too liberal. Lieutenant Governor Charles Robb, a probable Democratic nominee for Governor this year, had cast the tie-breaking vote in the state senate for the bill. Baptist Preacher Jerry Falwell of Lynchburg, leader of the Moral Majority, called Robb's vote "shocking and unexpected" and vowed it would end Robb's chances of election...
...reasons like this, some Eaters fans may be getting indigestion, chewing on their first release to find some unexpected ingredients. Are the Eaters going mass market? Can disco be far? Cataldo--who is backed by rhythm guitarist Jonathan Paley, drummer Jeff Wilkinson and bassist Robb Skeen--said in a recent interview that the smorgasbord quality of Nervous Eaters came from the inclusion of songs the group put together before it gained a following for reliable hard-rock...