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...been a big week for Death Row Records owner MARION ("SUGE") KNIGHT, one of the most controversial impresarios in an industry not known for blandness. First, he was arrested for failing to take a drug test that's part of his probation requirements on a 1992 assault charge. (He has been scarce since Tupac Shakur was shot in a car he was driving.) Then the Los Angeles Times disclosed that the prosecutor overseeing his case, Lawrence Longo, had been removed, after the D.A.'s office learned that Knight had given Longo's daughter a record deal and had rented...
...balanced-budget amendment and a controversial proposal to turn federally owned Colorado ski areas over to resort operators. A social conservative, Allard is against gay rights and favors the death penalty for first-degree murder and certain drug offenses; in the House, he supported a law limiting death-row inmates to one federal appeal...
Given its streak of choosing the winning presidential candidate 11 times in a row, Delaware would seem to be a perfect microcosm of America. It has ethnic neighborhoods, wide swaths of farmland, wealthy suburbs, military bases and resort towns. Candidates for statewide office actually meet a large segment of the electorate during the campaign, and in tiny Georgetown, the Thursday after the election, the losing candidate rides alongside the winner in the "Return Day" parade. This intimacy may explain why the major statewide offices are evenly split between the parties. It seems Delaware, the First State, pays more attention...
Blankenbaker is a proponent of free markets and a balanced-budget amendment. Convinced that Clinton has drifted away from the war on drugs, she advocates pre-trial detention laws, tougher sentencing and fewer death-row appeals. Blankenbaker has also benefited from contributions by women supporting her pro-choice, moderate candidacy...
Weld sailed into the Governor's office in 1990 and won re-election in 1994 with 71% of the vote. The popular Republican attributes his success to the balanced budget he delivered six years in a row while simultaneously cutting taxes. He also takes credit for an impressive economic recovery, highlighted by unemployment that reached a seven-year low in 1996. One problem for Weld: voters may not want him to leave the Statehouse...