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Among candidates for U.S. Senate, Kennedy, a Democrat, raised $929,071 between January and March, raising his campaign coffers to $2,793,837. W. Mitt Romney led Republicans seeking to unseat Kennedy with...
...same money-swamped system, and the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for 37 years until displaced by Hosokawa's government, lost two of its last 10 Prime Ministers to scandal. In fact, some analysts think Hosokawa, because of his popularity, could have beaten back the attempts to unseat him. But this supremely independent descendant of feudal lords does as he pleases. He reportedly told his eel-and-sake companions that he wanted more freedom to move around. Some Japanese thought him irresponsible for leaving so abruptly. "He's stepping down in the middle of things," said Tamotsu Dendo...
...Bush was on vacation, and everyone needs a break. But Bush never seemed to understand that politics demanded commitments of him beyond his duties as president. A president can afford a break; a campaigner can't. Bush wanted to separate these two jobs--that he did so helped unseat...
...need semiautomatics." The organization's take-no-prisoners lobbying techniques have alienated many old supporters. In New Jersey, an NRA counteroffensive backfired when pro-gun legislators felt cornered by panicky gun lobbyists. Lobbyist Rodger Iverson vowed to raise $100 from every one of the state's gun owners to unseat lawmakers who defied him on the assault-weapons ban. During a session of the state legislature last week, a flustered Iverson rose from the spectators' gallery during a speech supporting the law, directed an obscene gesture toward the legislative floor and stormed out of the hall...
WESTERN POWERS ARE MOUNTING A NEW CAMPAIGN to unseat Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire's mercurial dictator for 27 years. In the wake of bloody unrest that killed at least 1,000 people, the U.S., Belgium and France presented a demarche in Kinshasa, demanding that the President abide by an earlier commitment to transfer power to a transitional government headed by Etienne Tshisekedi. But Mobutu rejected the ultimatum, and its authors evidently plan to back it up through new economic pressure rather than by force. Despite an open plea by Tshisekedi for military intervention, about 700 French and Belgian troops sent...