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...virtual unknown when he was elected in 1978 to fill the unexpired term of the late Hubert Humphrey, Durenberger has emerged as a thoughtful moderate Republican and a Senator of skill and character. Although Durenberger has his quarrels with the Administration's economic program, Dayton is trying to make the campaign into a referendum on Reaganomics. Low grain price's and high interest rates are forcing Minnesota farmers to the wall, while the depressed steel industry has led to rising unemployment among iron-ore miners. Calling for increased federal support for wheat and dairy farmers, Dayton quips...
...that he has deliberately cultivated the homespun image and is actually a shrewd political infighter. Though he has been offered Cabinet posts in C.D.U. governments, he has tactfully one them all down, not wanting to become too identified with any one Chancellor. Despite frequent trips abroad, he is virtually unknown outside his own country. When Kohl visited Washington last October, West German journalists gleefully pointed out wire-service reports identifying him as Helmut "Cole...
Perhaps the most critical unknown in the domestic economy remains the future cost and availability of money. Under Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the U.S. for the past three years has pursued a policy of slowing money growth in an effort to curb inflation. But tighter money has collided head-on with strong demands for credit from both business and Government. The result: interest rates have gone to the highest sustained levels in more than 100 years...
...actually been supporting anyone for Senator: Republican Larry Hogan, a former congressman and currently a County Executive in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Stephan claims that NCPAC took the unprecedented and--because of the organization's officially non-partisan status--possibly illegal step of endorsing Hogan because he was unknown in such of the state. Stephen denies that the move had anything to do with a September 12 Baltimore Sun poll showing Sarbanes leading Hogan by 2-1, with only 11 percent undecided...
...posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting Jew." After a year in Soviet prisons, Begin went to Palestine and in swift order was leading the Irgun's violently anti-Arab and anti-British campaigns...