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...with History. And so she was pleased last Tuesday when the phone rang and it was Clinton on the line. They talked for a while. He asked about the health of her friend Czech President Vaclav Havel, who has lung cancer. Clinton mused about the messy U.S. effort to unseat Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Then there came a pregnant pause. And then he thanked her and hung...
Wesley prides herself on her "balanced perspective" on the issues. She denounces federal regulation of small business, but supports abortion rights, environmental protection, gun control and continued high levels of federal funding for education, Medicare and Social Security. Unfortunately for Wesley, more than perspective may be required to unseat eight-term conservative Duncan Hunter in this solidly Republican district...
...second bid to unseat Frank Wolf, Weinberg says he offers voters a choice--but he refuses to answer the TIME/CQ questionnaire because it focuses on "what a candidate would have done in the past," which he considers too hypothetical. Not abstractly, the newly retired lawyer must convince voters to turn out an incumbent famous for constituent services and put in his place a precinct committeeman who has never won an elective office...
...police force. It's a record any G.O.P. mayor might be proud of, but it belongs to Clarksville's "middle-of-the-road" Democrat, Don Trotter. And though Entrepreneur magazine rated Clarksville one of America's two best cities for small business, Trotter has a fight trying to unseat popular G.O.P. incumbent Ed Bryant...
Running to unseat four-term incumbent John Tanner, Watson is a busy man. This firefighter, the fourth of 12 sons from a rural Shelby County family, thinks Tanner is "rich and a nice fellow," but not a good representative for the Eighth. He especially disagrees with Tanner's lack of support for constitutional amendments limiting congressional terms and banning desecration of the U.S. flag...