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Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson won his first elective office by becoming the district's "shadow" Senator, providing him with a high-profile platform from which to launch another presidential run. The unsalaried job, which carries no voting privileges, will be used to lobby for statehood. Civil rights activist and law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton won the Delegate seat to the House, also a nonvoting post...
...Israelis and Palestinians cannot be left to their own devices, which too often include stones, knives, tear gas and bullets. The logical alternative is dialogue, but that seems increasingly unlikely as fear and hatred grow. By refusing to discuss a territorial compromise, Israel has convinced Palestinians that statehood can be won only through bloodshed. By stabbing Jews, Palestinians are rapidly transforming the remaining Israeli doves into hawks. If Bush really thinks he can break this stalemate, the U.S. is going to have to get tougher -- a lot tougher -- with both sides...
What is uncertain is whether Jackson will fulfill that hope. The host-to-be has already surprised his producers by running for a "shadow Senate" seat from the District of Columbia, an unofficial post that would give Jackson a vehicle for lobbying for D.C. statehood. (Jackson won the Democratic primary and faces only token opposition in the Nov. 6 election.) That move has forced two important stations in Washington and Baltimore to keep his show off the air until after the balloting, to avoid any potential equal-time conflicts...
...assistant campaign manager for Jesse Jackson in 1988, he announced last week that he is "seriously exploring" his own independent run for President in 1992. Daniels advocates D.C. statehood, a slowdown in prison construction to boost social spending, and reparations to descendants of slaves...
Jesse Jackson announced last week that he would seek election as a District of Columbia "Shadow Senator," a nonjob created by the D.C. Council as a way to lobby for statehood. No real surprise there. But the eye opener is that Jackson made his bid after several private meetings with Ron Brown, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Brown, a close ally during Jackson's 1988 presidential bid, won his leadership post by promising that his ties with Jesse were a thing of the past. Yet a Jackson spokesman says Brown agreed "to mobilize the party" to help Jackson...