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...presidential nomination to Gerald Ford in 1976. The Democrats scored a sweeping victory in the Senate, where they replaced a 53-to-47 Republican majority with a 55-to-45 majority of their own. The Teflon President seemed to have Teflon coattails: of the 16 Republican Senators who rode into office on the Reagan wave of 1980, only half were re-elected last week; only four ! Republican Senators won out of the 16 he had campaigned for since Labor...
...Senators maintained a majority in the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body." Then came the 1980 election-night massacre, when the heartland liberals, the George McGoverns and Frank Churches and Birch Bayhs, were sent packing by a band of upstart Republicans, most of them quite conservative and many undistinguished, who rode into office on Ronald Reagan's flowing coattails. The Democrats lost the majority that night. This year, with that G.O.P. class of 1980 up for re-election for the first time, the Democrats are seeking revenge, and control...
...wheeling a small baby in a stroller recalls part of Gotti's past: "He lost a son. You want to know something? I hope he gets away with it. I pray for him." In 1979 a neighbor accidentally killed Gotti's twelve-year-old son when the boy rode a motorbike in front of his car. Gotti was distraught; his wife seemed broken. A few months after the boy's death, the neighbor disappeared. Police suspect that he was stuffed into a car as it was about to be compacted...
...week at 5:28 p.m., when two black-mustachioed men in a black BMW drove past. As the car slowed down, the man on the passenger side got out and dropped a package into a trash can near the front door. He quickly hopped back into the car and rode off. A few seconds later an explosion shattered the happy sounds of shoppers. "There was simply a noise, very loud, then the screams of the people," recalled a witness. In an instant the sidewalk was littered with the bodies of the dead, the dying and the wounded. Shattered glass, bits...
Bachrach, meanwhile, ran an offensivecampaign--occasionally in more senses than one.The challenger almost had a chance in late August,when he rode to within five poll percentage pointsof his opponent on the campaign's first directKennedy-bashing. He questioned the candidate'sknowledge of the district, since Kennedy has onlylived in Brighton since his children finishedschool in Marshfield last spring. He also attackedseveral changes in position that appeared to havebeen strategic rather than moral decisions...