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...revolutionary moves in the ultrapatriarchal gulf. He has angered neighbors by receiving a minister from Iraq and a minister plus a battleship from Iran--every other sheik's two worst enemies. He has also tried to outdo them in pleasing the U.S., offering the Pentagon a base on his soil and, until Benjamin Netanyahu came to power, moving faster to normalize relations with Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE ROYAL ON THE GULF | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...Sixties, but there is still only one African American from Alabama in Congress. Despite a Democratic surge during the Wallace era, voters in the Camellia State still lean toward the g.o.p. as space-age communities like Huntsville grow and heavy industry, attracted by the state's red, iron-filled soil, declines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: ALABAMA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

BORN: Aug. 27, 1942, Stuttgart EDUCATION: U of Arkansas, B.S., 1965 FAMILY: Wife, Carolyn; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Farmer; White House aide POLITICAL CAREER: Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation commissioner, 1992-94 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 8084, Jonesboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: ARKANSAS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...district where tilling the soil is not a hobby but an industry of thousand-acre farms, Ewing's chairmanship of the Risk Management and Specialty Crops Subcommittee makes him a formidable foe. His bias toward his district's needs--he guided a controversial farm bill through Congress last year--sometimes aggravates his G.O.P. colleagues, but Ewing knows they don't vote to send him to Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: ILLINOIS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Latham, who represents a district with more than 18,000 sq. mi. of the nation's most fertile soil, told voters he would take his rural values to Washington. He calls himself a "progressive conservative"; as a deficit hawk, he was named a Taxpayer's Hero by the Council for the Citizens Against Government Waste. You can even check the national debt's growth on Latham's Website www.house.gov/latham)...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: IOWA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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