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...John Sununu, 46, is not just another well-heeled computer buff. He is the Governor of New Hampshire, and the data he pores over so diligently represent the state's $1 billion in annual expenditures. Using the computer and modem in his office in Concord, he can punch in his name and secret password, log on to the state's IBM 4361 mainframe computer, and get a quick reading, in glowing green digits, of the state's financial health: room-and-meal tax returns ($30.3 million as of last November); business profits taxes ($28.4 million); out-of-town travel expenses...
...Republican Governor's prowess with computers has become legendary in New Hampshire. When a party worker complained that he was having trouble with his mass mailing program, Sununu spent a few minutes at his keyboard and solved the problem. Reviewing an environmental group's study of the impact of a new dam, Sununu zeroed in on a questionable variable in the calculations and set the record straight. After one of the Governor's eight children complained about a broken keyboard on his own home computer, Sununu scoured around for a replacement part and fixed it himself...
...Sununu was inaugurated into the computer age in 1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in mechanical engineering and taught himself programming to help expedite his doctoral thesis on fluid mechanics. In 1969 he moved to New Hampshire, added Republican politics to his long list of interests, served in the state legislature, and in 1982 was elected Governor in an upset victory over the Democratic incumbent, Hugh Gallen...
...general revenue sharing in 1972; by next October $78.6 billion will have gone out to cities, counties and states. The rationale was mainly to give cities with impoverished property-tax bases a chance to provide local services comparable to more stable communities. Argues New Hampshire's Republican Governor John Sununu: "The whole point of the Federal Government is its being an equalizer. That's its role...
...Republicans who won bids to a second term, both as expected, were Indiana's Robert D. Orr, 66, and New Hampshire's John H. Sununu, 45. In Delaware, retiring Pierre S. du Font's G.O.P. seat passed to a protege, Lieutenant Governor Michael N. Castle, 45. The grandee of West Virginia politics, two-term Governor Arch A. Moore, 61, hammered out a third victory, following an eight-year hiatus filled by Democrat Jay Rockefeller. Democrats were also replaced by Republicans in Utah, where House Speaker Norman H. Bangerter, 51, coasted to victory, and in North Carolina, where...