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...keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, is Mo Udall, 58, who was the Democratic keynoter. Admits Bruce Wright, Udall's campaign manager: "The Republicans smell blood this time." The ten-term Congressman's chief problem is the rapidly shifting political complexion of his district. It includes Tucson, which is part of Pima County. The county normally accounts for about 80% of the district's votes, and its population has soared from 275,000 to 531,885 during Udall's 19 years in Congress. Many of the newcomers are retired people or executives of national firms...
Huff expects to spend up to $500,000, much of it from out of state; Udall is budgeting some $475,000. Udall's chief hope is that he can offset his losses in the Tucson area by reminding voters in the district's arid hinterland of how he has helped shape legislation affecting their water supplies, including pushing a $100 million appropriation through Congress last year for the huge Central Arizona Project, which would bring Colorado River water to the Phoenix and Tucson areas...
...twice as large as Summa's hotel and casino business by 1985. The Summa real estate holdings are a potential jackpot. The company owns 29,000 acres in Nevada; only the Federal Government has more land in the state. Summa is about to sell 12,000 acres in Tucson and is sitting on an additional 1,200 acres in the affluent Playa del Rey section of Los Angeles...
...Bonanno was anointed a don-at 26, the youngest godfather in the nation. For the next three decades, "Joe Bananas" ruthlessly ran a New York City crime family that specialized in gambling, labor racketeering, loan sharking and narcotics. In 1966 he supposedly retired to a modest ranch house in Tucson...
Others remember all too well. Says Sister Corina Padilla, a Dominican missionary nun in Tucson: "This kind of violence isn't unusual. In fact, it's quite normal." Adds Ruben Sandoval, a San Antonio attorney observing the trial: "This is still the kind of place where white supremacy reigns, and others have to fight to survive. This is the wild, wild West...