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...Wednesday the three-term former Senator from Tennessee visited Capitol Hill to "get my passport restamped," as he put it, but actually to dramatize the Administration's desire to rebuild its relations with Congress. Republican Leader Bob Dole welcomed Baker to his office, which had been named "The Howard H. Baker Jr. Rooms" after he left the chamber in 1984. Dole had Baker's portrait placed where cameras could catch it and jokingly beamed a baby spotlight at it. He also offered Baker a key to his old office. No thanks, joked the new chief of staff, "I kept...
...Though he lost his bid for the Senate two years ago, former U.S. Representative Jim Shannon was a fine three-term congressman who plans to crack down to enforce strictly nuclear power regulations and to increase consumer protection as state attorney general...
...California, Democratic Senator Alan Cranston widened an early lead by depicting Republican Opponent Ed Zschau as flip-flapping on issues. Zschau struck back, using Cranston's opposition to the death penalty to charge that the three-term Democrat is soft on terrorists and drug dealers. The latest polls show Zschau closing in on Cranston...
Only in California is a Democratic incumbent facing serious opposition. Three-term Senator Alan Cranston would seem an endangered species in the Golden State. He is an ardent liberal in an increasingly Republican state; he is a gaunt-looking 72-year-old in a state that worships youth. And he is opposed by Republican Congressman Ed Zschau, 46, a clean-cut moderate who made a fortune as an electronics entrepreneur in Silicon Valley...
...advertising, much of it devoted to teaching voters how to pronounce his name (like the first syllable in shower). In a display of post-primary solidarity, Zschau and his six key competitors sat down after his victory for a unity lunch in Los Angeles, where he discussed strategy against three-term Democratic Incumbent Alan Cranston...