Word: wilder
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What the Confederate flag represents is more ambiguous. Though it reminds us of slavery, it also stands for pride in the South. That is why Virginia Governor Doug Wilder embraced it during his successful campaign to become the nation's first post-Reconstruction Black governor. And that is why we disagree with the staff's failure to make a distinction between the Confederate flag and the swastika. While we dislike the Confederate flag and disapprove of its display, we cannot pretend that the two symbols can or should be equated...
...Connecticut, where the idea of a state income tax has been practically banned from political discourse, incoming Governor Lowell Weicker Jr. has boldly called for one. Elected 15 months ago, Governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia has continued to defy assumptions about the social priorities of black Democrats by proposing that the state eliminate, among other things, the Department for Children, the Council on the Status of Women and the Council on Indians. In California, where health and highways are obsessions, Governor Pete Wilson, a Republican, is taxing granola bars and raising the cost of registering cars...
...year-old mother were brutally murdered in Norfolk, Va. Their sometime housemate, a drug addict named Joe Giarratano, woke up from a stupor, saw the bodies and confessed to the killings. Last week, just three days before Giarratano was scheduled to die in the electric chair, Governor L. Douglas Wilder commuted his sentence to life in prison and offered him the chance to seek a new trial...
...Giarratano, 33, now a jailhouse lawyer, is no longer convinced he was the killer. Since 1983, he and supporters, ranging from conservative columnist James J. Kilpatrick to singer-activist Joan Baez, have sought to show that various statements in his confession contradict each other and the crime-scene evidence. Wilder, who received 6,000 pleas to commute the death sentence, ultimately agreed. But only state attorney general Mary Sue Terry can grant Giarratano a second trial, and she is so far unwilling...
...Horton ploy worked as well as it did because Michael Dukakis responded feebly. Determined to fight back this time, the Democrats began rhetorical carpet bombing a month ago. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder sent Bush an open letter admonishing him to practice "moral leadership." The ideal of equal opportunity, Wilder said in a message that got wide attention, "is not a political football to be used by our President to appease the Jesse Helmses of this country." House majority leader Richard Gephardt, a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, placed the Republicans on "a new trail of racial resentment...