Word: virginia
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THIS summer, one prominent Harvard liberal extolled to me, over a few beers, the virtues of living in New York City. I told her that I prefer my little home-town in West Virginia, where you can leave your keys in your car, and where no one would think of walking past a starving man on the sidewalk. "Yes," she said, looking at me impatiently, "but what can you do on weekends...
...Crimson, which captured the ITCA Region One team competition with a 5-4 upset of West Virginia in the finals two weeks ago, qualified six players for the main draw--Michael Zimmerman, Mike Shyjan, Derek Brown, Albert Chang, Mark Leschly and Jon Cardi...
Whether abortion is an issue that will decide the outcome of elections is being tested in Governor's campaigns in Virginia and New Jersey. Race was expected to be a dominant preoccupation in Virginia, where Democratic Lieut. Governor Douglas Wilder is seeking to become the nation's first elected black Governor. But while it may never be far from voters' minds, the race issue has failed to materialize, allowing Wilder to keep the focus on the antiabortion views of his Republican opponent, Marshall Coleman...
Coleman and Wilder are running nearly even, but Wilder has wider support among women voters. Polls indicate that abortion is the decisive factor in the disparity. "I trust the women of Virginia," Wilder taunted his opponent in a televised debate last week. "That's the difference between you and I." Coleman is trying the hang-tough route, sticking to his staunch opposition to abortion in all cases except where the life of the woman is in danger. But he has promised that if he wins the election he will not propose legislation to outlaw the termination of pregnancies that result...
...choice groups have pumped time and money into campaigns against Coleman and Courter. Last week NARAL previewed a pair of anti-Coleman commercials it has produced for the Virginia race. In New Jersey the group expects to spend $100,000 on Florio's behalf. The organization also plans to contact 50,000 specially selected G.O.P. and independent voters who might be persuaded to support him solely on the basis of his pro-choice stance. "Abortion is now a dominant issue in American politics," says Kate Michelman, NARAL's executive director. Pro-choice activists are doing everything they can to keep...