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These races showed that, given a chance, disgusted voters would readily spurn both parties. But they were not eager to gamble on political unknowns: the winners were familiar former officeholders who had cast off their Republican labels to repackage themselves as independents. Same soap, new box. Connecticut's Lowell Weicker Jr., a three-term G.O.P. Senator who lost his seat in 1988, made a name for himself as a party maverick who battered Richard Nixon during Watergate and stood up to Ronald Reagan on contra aid, Star Wars and tax policy. With their state in a recession, Connecticut voters were...
...Lowell Weicker vexed the GOP again, this time as an outsider, with an independent victory for governor of Connecticut. Republican Gov. Kay Orr was trailing, barely, in Nebraska...
Over the next five years, more then 4,000 protesters, including Amy Carter, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, then Senator Lowell Weicker and singer Stevie Wonder, would follow them to jail. Another 5,000 were arrested at South African consulates around the country. By that time the movement had developed powerful friends on Capitol Hill, including Kennedy and his fellow Democratic Senators Alan Cranston of California and Paul Simon of Illinois. They saw in the antiapartheid movement an opportunity to strike a blow against the otherwise unassailable Reagan...
...Weicker, a liberal Republican who lost his senatorial seat last November, said in an interview last week that he would consider taking the job as IOP director, though he declined to add whether he was a top candidate for the post...
During his two-day visit to Harvard as a Heffernan Fellow last week, Weicker met privately with Champion and the IOP's Student Advisory Committee (SAC). Champion declined to comment about his meeting with Weicker, but said that he has also met with several other visitors to the school, including Babbitt...