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...Your heart breaks for these folks," said Governor Pete Wilson after touring some of the hardest-hit areas. Earlier, when the rains began to fall on Sacramento, the Governor had been making his second-term inaugural speech. He had spoken of the grit and tenacity with which Californians had overcome one destructive force after another. The venue for the gubernatorial address had been changed from outdoors to indoors because of the weather; meanwhile the true deluge was moving toward California on the wings of a 200-m.p.h. jet stream. Normally, a high-pressure dome off the coast deflects such activity...
...Second-term council member Bradford E. Miller '97 defeated Rehling and former presidential candidate Jason E. Schmitt '98 in the race for vice-chair of the committee...
...himself set off a wave of son-of-Bush explanations for the Vice President's startling choice of a successor. But such a description shortchanges Bush and unduly enhances Quayle, whose life can be reduced, says John Palffy, his former Senate staff economist, to "family, golf and politics." The second-term Senator, of modest accomplishments, is a lot less qualified for the vice presidency than was the credential-laden Bush, an elder statesman by comparison, when...
Suarez, the second-term mayor of Miami, saidthe next president must show some affinity withthe Hispanic community. He said that if thepresidential nominees turn out to be VicePresident George Bush and Rep. Richard Gephardt(D.-Mo.), Bush would do much better in the Hispaniccommunity...
...rescued a woman from an office fire, been first on the scene of an early-morning plane crash, and plucked a man from a wrecked car near city hall. Though critics carp that Flynn's heroics amount to headline grabbing as he prepares for a second-term bid this November, the mayor vows that he will continue helping citizens in need. Says he: "I'll do it again whenever a situation arises, and never mind the fallout...