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CHE approves tuition increase

By Stephen Trimole
Executive Editor

and Paula Sword
Staff Writer

OWENSBORO — Cries for
reform from student leaders of Ken-
tucky’s eight state-sup—
ported universities
went largely unheard
yesterday and the
Council on Higher
Education approved a
small tuition increase
for next year.

Tuition at UK and
the University of Welhinulon
Louisville will rise $40
a semester, beginning in fall 1995, to
$1,130 for in-state students.

 

Non—Kentucky residents at UK will
pay $120 more per semester. Last year
the council raised UK student’s tuition
11.2 percent.

The other state universities will see
an increase of 6.3 percent, or $50, next
fall. The total tuition cost will be $840
per semester.

Last week, UK students blocked
traffic and marched into the Adminis-
tration Building to protest the tuition
increase.

Student Government Association
President Benn Ra Bailey a peared
at the meeting, fiut did not ad ress the
council. g

The proposal prompted state, Uni-
versity and student leaders to address
the council, each detailing their per—
speceive on the impact of a tuition

increase.

State support for higher education
in Kentucky has steadily declined from
79 percent of total revenue throughout
the system in 1984 to 39 percent this
year. V

Wayne Stratton, executive director
for the Kentucky Higher Education
Assistance Authority told council
members that the 10— ear trend of
raising student costs has created a
“whole generation of college students
now indebted.”

Stratton added that new increases
every year has stunted access to higher
education amon Kentucky’s poor
population, who (E) not want to pay for
a college degree with borrowed
money.

Last year, KHEAA provided aid to

Homeless
man may
QGt grant

By Jennifer Smith
Staff Writer

Clayton Sanford may still have
another chance at a Student Gov—
ernment Association Child Care
Grant.

The SGA Supreme Court
ruled last night that the Awards
and Grants Committee did not
have appropriate written guide-
lines for determining who can
receive the $350 grant.

The court is calling for formal
written guidelines to be estab-
lished with the
assistance of a UK
financial aid offi—
cer. After the cri—
teria are set up,
the court said all
, of the applications

' will be reviewed.

Jay Ingle, SGA
Supreme Court
chief justice, said
the process will not take the
grants away from their original
I‘CClplentS.

He said the review is only to
determine if there was some form
of discrimination caused by a lack
of written criteria.

“After the review process is
complete, if it is determined that
Mr. Sanford happens to fall into
the top eight who should have
gotten a grant, then we’ll award
him $350 which will be taken out
of the (SGA) executive budget,”
Ingle said.

SGA Director of Academic
Affairs Avi Weitzman said he
thinks the court’s decision is fair.

Weitzman said he and the
Awards and Grants Committee
will comply with the court’s sug-
gestions.

However, he said he does not
believe a financial officer will find
his committee’s original cuts
unfair.

“I am completely, completely
confident when a financial aid
officer sits down with us he or she
will totally agree with our first
decision,” Weitzman said.

Sanford said it d es not matter
if he receives the grudnt as long as
he has improved the SGA stan-
dards of evaluating their awards
. and grants.

“I never asked for preferential
treatment on these grants,” San-
ford said.

“And if it is determined that I
don’t meet the guidelines now,
then great.”

He said his reason for bringing
the claim to the court was to show
problems existed in the way
SGA’s awards and grants system is
set up.

“There was no written way to
determine someone’s eligibility,
and that was wrong,” Sanford
said.

Sanford also charged the com-
mittee with discriminating against
him on the basis of his gender.

He said the committee also did
not consider that he is a homeless

   

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50 percent of eli ible college students
in Kentucky with a $17 million bud-
get.

The state supplied most of the
funds for grants and loans, and the fed—
eral government added $800,000.

However, Stratton said adding next
year’s tuition increases will mean the
agency will need $14 million more to
help provide eligible students with
grants and loans.

In a 10—minute discussion with stu~
dent body presidents from several
Kentucky universities, the council was
asked to reform the funding model
they use to set tuition costs to make
tuition increases more fair for stu—
dents.

In a statement read by Rob Evans,

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Voting dillicult for students

By Alison Kighl
Stafl Writer

For some UK students, Election
Day is just like any other.

“I’m not even registered to vote,”
said Anita Bateh, a political science
senior.

“I never had the time.”

Apathy among young people con—
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eration voted,
we would control 31 percent of the
nationwide voting block,” Crabtree
said. “We’re 57 million strong, but we
don’t exercise our power.”

Despite low oung voter turnout,
some students va ue their right.

“I think that with me being an
African-American, it’s really im ortant
for me to ive my opinion,” sai Marlia
Hill, an E ementary Education senior.
“We need to speak out in society, and
we need to become more democratized
as far as the way we think and how we
feel about certain subjects.”

SGA is working with other college
campuses to implement the policies of
Register Once, a national campaign for
student voting rights.

The program would make re 'ster-
ing to vote less complicated “(g1 more
convenient.

Register Once is similar to the
recently passed “Motor-Voter” Bill,
which registers eople to vote when
they renew their river’s licenses.

“College students are usually caught
on campus with no transportation,”

'l

Crabtree said. “These students need a
convenient way to register as well as
vote.”

Since colle e students move around
so much, usuafiy to a new address every
year, registering can become compli-
cated, Crabtree said.

“Even if you only move across the
hall, then you still have to go down to
the county courthouse and register
again each year,” Crabtree

House of Representatives.

“The importance of Register Once
goes beyond the mere fact that it will
enable students to vote,” Crabtree said.
“Young people need to realize that they
have a large voice.”

Legislators don’t come up with stu—
dent issues while campaigning because
students do not vote, she said.

Several students said they were

 

said.

“We would like it if stu—
dents could simply fill out a
form that is in their Sched—

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not voting because they
were not amiliar with the
candidates.

“I’m registered, but I
probably won’t vote," said

ule ofClasses, turn it in, and College Bryan Haley, a computer
be registered.” students are science junior.

Register Once would also “57“”), caught ' “It’s not a national elec—
help to make voting by tion, so I don t know the
absentee ballot easier. Many 0” campus local candidates. Besides,
out—of—state students do not wit/7 "0_ I’m kind of sick of politics at
vote because they say that it transportation. the moment.”
is difficult to obtain ballots. The” students However, Crabtree said

“It’s too hard to vote needa having a large number of
with an absentee ballot,” convenient wa registered people will be
said Leslie Steller, a physi- . ' “V good because at least give
cian’s assistant so homore. to "Ema.“ people a chance to vote.

“Maybe if they ha an easier
way to do it, I would vote.”

well as vote.”

“If you have all of these
registered voters on campus,

Crabtree said Register Alison Crabtree you have a power base,”
Once is working on plans to Student Crabtree said.
alleviate student voting dif- Government “Then legislators will
ficulties. mimic" start talking to student lead—
“(Register Once) would 60;;me ers. They will address stu—
create a central place on Afibin dent issues.”
campus where students Chairwoman She said that certain

 

could reqpest, receive, and

issues like unemployment

 

 

deposit a sentee ballots for
their home state,” Crabtree said.

SGA is circulating petitions on cam-
pus to drum up support for Register
Once.

“We’ve talked to legislators, and
they have seemed open to the idea of
Register Once,” Crabnee said. “Durin
the next General Assembl , (in 1996
SGA, along with other student govern-
ment organizations, will have to lobby
for it.”

Crabtree said le 'slation for Register
Once has alread geen introduced on
the national leve to the Senate and the

and health care directly
affect people from the ages of 18-32.

“Unemployment among oun peo-
ple is at 14.1 percent, whic is ouble
the national rate,” Crabtree said. “One
fourth of all young people have no
health care.”

Crabtree mentioned the recent trend
of decreased financial support from
state legislators, adding that last ear,
50,000 applications for financial! aid
were turned away at UK.

“We need to realize our political
power,” Crabtree said. “We could have
so much.”

 

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SEMBACH, Germany —— The U.S. Air Force
opened a negligent homicide case yesterday against a
fighter pilot charged in the accidental downing of two
Army helicopters over Iraq that claimed 26 lives.

Lt. Col. Randy \V. May, a decorated 19-year veteran
and squadron commander, faced the military’s equiva—
lent of a grand jury hearing at Sembach Air Base in a
closed courtroom with its windows papered over.

May and another ilot, Ca t. Eric A. \Vickson, fired
missiles at two Black, Hawk elicopters April 14 over
northern Iraq, mistaking them for Iraqi Hinds violating
a “no-fly zone.”

Mandela says right-winners still a threat

DURBAN, South Africa — The weekend murder of
a white theologian who led the Afrikaner church away
from apartheid shows white extremists are still a threat,
President Nelson Mandela said yesterday.

Johan Heyns, the 66-year-old former head of the
Dutch Reformed Church, was shot Saturday through
the window of his Pretoria home. He died instantly.

Mandela told reporters he questioned whether the
previous, white—led government did enough to disarm
right—wingers.

“I don’t think it’s realistic for us to expect no threat
(from the right wing),” he said.

Police said they have few leads and no one has
claimed responsibility for Heyns’ death, but suspicions
focused on white extremists.

nnnon Soldiers will be home lor Xmas

WASHINGTON — At least 13,000 U.S. soldiers
are scheduled to return home from Haiti and Kuwait by
Christmas, and Defense Secretary William Perry is
hinting the number could go higher.

President Clinton approved the plans Sunday during
a campaign trip to the West Coast, officials said.

The plan calls for brin ing 6,000 troops back from
Haiti by about Dec. 1, caving about 9,000 troops.
Nearly all the 7,800 ground combat troops will return
from Kuwait by Dec. 22, leaving a bolstered air and
naval presence, Pentagon officials said.

Appearing yesterday at a photo session with Cambo—
dian defense officials, Perry said “several thousand
more” troops may be withdrawn, but he did not say
from where or when.

  

Parent's COIIIBSSIOII released

UNION, S.C. —- Susan Smith was a suicidal “ner—
vous wreck” and almost went to a watery grave with her
young boys, but decided finally to get out of the car and
let her children drown alone, according to her police
confession.

“I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car,
ready to go down that ramp into the water and I did go
part way, but I stopped,” Smith said in the written con-
fession, CNN reported Sunday. “I went again and I
stopped. Then I got out of the car a nervous wreck.

“I dropped to the lowest when I allowed my children
to go down that ramp into the water without me. I took
off running and screaming, ‘Oh God, oh God no. What
have I done,”’ the confession read.

lto allows Ill cameras in court

LOS ANGELES — Despite a mountain of mail
from fed-up TV viewers, the judge in the OJ. Simpson
murder trial backed down from his threat yesterday and
allowed cameras to stay in court.

Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said the media have
been more responsible since an erroneous KNBC—TV
report in September that Nicole Brown Simpson’s
blood had been found on a sock in Simpson’s home.
The judge also acknowleged that any inaccurate report-
ing happened outside the courtroom, and not because
cameras were inside.

“I do not make any decisions in this courtroom
based on public opinion polls,” Ito said, sitting beside
21 cartons filled with nearly 15,000 letters, most of
them urging him to bar cameras.

In a spirited televised hearing, First Amendment
lawyers argued in favor of keeping the cameras in court,
saying they help educate the pu die and deter inaccu-
rate reporting.

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Schwarzkopl to appear on ‘Jsopardyl’

NEW YORK — Will Nonnan Schwarzkopf take
Military History for $200?

How about Famous Tall Guys for $500 for Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar?

The retired general and the former
basketball star take buzzers in hand this
week with a slew of other big names for
the third annual “(Ielebrityjeopardyl”

The stars pla ed each other in five
shows, with the rst show scheduled for
broadcast Monday.

The celebs taped the shows weeks
ago but pledged not to reveal the big
winner.

The prize money goes to the
celebrities’ favorite charities. USA Today said the
grand total was $175,000.

Schwarzkopf did battle against Tony Randall and
Stefanie Powers. Abdul-Jabbar went up against Larry
King and Alexandra Paul of “Baywatch. jason Alexan-
der of “Seinfeld” and David Hyde Pierce of “Frasier”
were among the other contestants.

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As of yesterday, onl three
students had applied for the seat.

Student Government Associa—
tion President Benny Ray Bailey,
former SGA President Scott
Crosbie and SGA Greek Liaison
Greg ()erther have turned in
their applications for the student
trustee spot.

There is a mandatory meeting
at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow afternoon
for those planning to run in the
election.

“Basically (SGA Elections
Board Chairwoman Amelia
Perkins) will go over election
rules, polling places, and cam—
paign grounds,” said Heather
Hennel, SGA
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Election rules will roughly
follow the same guidelines used
for the SGA Senate spring and
fall elections.

The candidates are restricted
to an expenditure of $150, and
they must fill out an form detail—
ing where the money was spent
for materials.

The use of posters will be lim—
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young blacks in this country can,
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job discrimination and restricted
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teenage pre nancy, poverty and
mm work abits and attitudes
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lllt experts see (:1th gain

Republicans
expected to win
big this year

By David Turner
.smfj‘wrm

Today, across the United
States, people will exercise their
constitutional right to vote. ['K
political experts are watching the
process, waiting to see how deci—
sions made bv people in the vot—
ing booth will guide the direction
ofour country and state.

In Kentucky -- as in the rest of
the nation A the Republican
party has been making concerted
efforts to capture certain seats,
which have been traditionally
held by Democrats.

“People identi incumbency
with Democrats, ’ said Penny
Miller, director of undergradu-
ate studies for the political sci-
ence department.

Republicans initially thought
they could get five out of six
seats up for election in the Ken~
tucky state legislature.

In hopes of such success the
party invested a tremendous
amount of effort into those dis-
tricts where they predicted a

the employment status gap has
not, despite economic changes.

Wilkinson said it is easy to see
the link between chronically
unemployed black youth and the
racial disturbances in communities
like Lexington.

For young people, particularly
males, being employed is a mark
of self—worth, strength and accom-
plishment, she said.

“The failure to use our young
resource pool in the best possible
way in this nation is an extraordi—
nary predictor of collective unrest,
drug use and tensions among
youth, especially among males,”
Wilkinson said.

Because previous answers have
inadequately explained the long
term problem of unemployment
among the nation’s black youth,
Wilkinson examines other possi—
bilities in an article in a recently
published book, “African Ameri-
can Youth: Their Social and Eco-
nomic Status in the United

chance of winning seats, Miller
said.

Each election is unique in
and of itself so the numbers
could go in almost any direc-
tion, she said.

For example, in the 12th Dis-

trict state Senate

 

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the Christian right, wliich is “...
definitely a factor in any local
election ...,” said Greg Ha er,
an associate professor in po iti-
cal science.

Banking on the popular cyni-
cism ofvoters, the Republicans
believed they could win these
elections by portraying their
Democrat Opponents as

States.”

“I raise a question not previous—
ly asked,” she said. “What specific
and enduring racial practices
might inhibit the job chances of
black adolescents and young
adults?”

Basing her research on U.S.
Department of Labor and census
data, Wilkinson oints to employ—
er attitudes and eliefs as causing
differences in work status by race
in the United States.

Wilkinson said differences in
the employment position of black
and white adolescents and young
adults reflect a complex set of fac-
tors that include perpetual job dis—
crimination, restricted access to
opportunities and the lack of fun—
damental resources.

“The preferences and predispo—
sitions of personnel staff, career
placement officers, employers and
managers play a significant role in
blocking young African-Ameri-
cans from participating in the

political insiders and rofes-
sional politicians, said iller.

Hager, said, “... since 1934
the President’s party has always
lost these mid-term elections.”

Many sources expect the
Republicans to )erform better
in this round of legislative elec—
tions than they have in years
past.

The Republicans will win a
minimum of 25 seats in the
national elections, said Hager.

“I don’t think there is any
clear evidence of the country
going in any one direction,” he
said.

Miller feels the media has
played a substantial role in the
development of political cam-
paigns for this year’s November
elections.

The number of negative
campaign spots are higher than
they have ever been, even
among those candidates who
have never used such tactics,
Miller said.

These negative spots stir up
the public’s interest and appeal
to their already cynical attitude
about government and the state
of the country, she said.

There are about 1.4 million
registered Democrats in the
state, while there are only
644,00 registered Republicans.

Biscrimination, lllW 308988 lllll‘t black youth

work world,” she said.

Although interpreting data
involves evaluation, Wilkinson
said, the data supports her conclu-
sions.

“There is a gap,” she said. “It is
constant, it is continuing if not
widening, so how do we explain it?
We’ve tried every explanation
conceivable and none has held up,
so we must provide rational expla—
nations that reflect a race-con—
scious society."

Employers may perceive black
youths as not havin the social and
personal qualities t at make them
desirable employees, she said.

Those youth, Wilkinson said,
who are repeatedly rejected for
jobs are frustrated and hesitant to
even submit a job application.

“In Lexington, as in many
other parts of the country,” she
said. “We have a vast pool of wast-
ed human resources because we’ve
closed the door of opportunity to
them.”

 

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Listen: The sound you hear this

Election Day may be the voice of
innocence lost.
‘ You can hear it at a union office
in Los Angeles, in tidy bun alows
in Chica 0, at a marble- oored
beauty sa on in Dallas and at a tat-
tered linoleum—floored barber
shop in Brooklyn.

You can hear it all over the
country.

Americans once had a reputa-
tion for a certain naivete about
politics. But as pollsters keep
telling us, and as interviews across
the country this past week
affirmed, a sense of cynicism has
crept across the political land-
scape.

Most voters can now be divided
into two groups: those who have
become disillusioned about Amer-
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its law, enacted by the voters.

“He took his constituency to
court,” Evans says. “I can’t forgive
him for that.”

You might expect to hear the
same thing from constituents of
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, whose
district cuts throu h a mostly mid-
dle-class swath of Chicago. Ros-
tenkowski, an 18-term incumbent,
is under federal indictment for
offenses ranging from ghost pay-
rolling to theft of his House
postage money.

And, to be sure, there are voters
who won’t for 've him. But many
are willing to sfimg it all off with a
resigned acceptance about the true
nature of olitics.

“I thin he’s done as good a job
as anybody else,” says Florence
Egan, who lives in the bungalow
belt on the city’s northwest side.
“This post-office business what
congressman hasn’t done the same
thing, maybe not with postage but
something else? Who

 

who already were. knows if it’s really all
You can hear it in crooked or not?”
the wind that blows . . Egan, 62, is a life-
the season’s first snow long Chicagoan who
across the rolling Politic; med to has worked as a teach-
wheat fields ofeastern by“ er’s aide in the public
Washin ton state, P end schools for 30 years.
where Igouse Speaker m . 0m Her husband is a
Tom Foley is strug- Part 171 my retired postal worker,
gling to save his day-to-da lifi: bar owner and factory
career. but ’ve worker. She su ports
Here, Phil Evans found as I’ve PreSident C inton,
runs an insurance ' [d I believes the economy 15
busmess from the gotten 0 “73 domg fine, but worries
back of the ancient $37111 more about health care, edu—
Freeman Store, south time on me. ” cation and crime.
of Spokane. He hears v To Geri Hatch, the
a lot about the local problem is one of
disgust with politics. “Fruiting, morali . For years,
“We’re not getting Mg! 1 4“ er Hatch as volunteered
anything from gov- with the Republican

 

 

 

ernment except high-
er taxes, and less and less return
from those taxes,” Evans says.

“I think Congress has forgotten
about agriculture, and Con ress
has forgotten about small Eusi-
ness.”

For 45 nonstop minutes, Evans
rails at his government, his
thoughts drifting from one com-
plaint to another: Wheat prices
that are the same as 20 years ago.
A nation that denies its farmers a
decent living. Voter apathy. And
Congress? Oh, Congress — filled
with arrogant, power—hungry
career politicians who have lost
touch with the people.

Evans, 50, moved to eastern
Washington from California less
than two years ago. He says he
never even noticed Foley until the
speaker went to court to challenge
Washington state’s new term-lim—

Women on Election
Day, handing out ballots at her
precinct in Dallas. Not this year.

She’s disillusioned with politi-
cians ~— Clinton prominently
among them — who seem to for—
get they are role models for the
nation’s youths.

“I was brought up very morally.
It really bothers me because of the
young people that look up to

im,” Hatc says. As she speaks,

her hair is swe t into an Ivana-
esque French roll at a beauty salon
with marble floors and crystal
chandeliers.

Hatch hasn’t entirely lost faith.

“I hope Republicans take con-
trol of Congress because the
Democrats have had it so long,”
she says, brushing aside an errant
wisp of hair. “I think it’s time the
Republicans show what they,can
do.”

EIeCTioNS '94
Disillusioned voters head to polls

 

Diana Cotter is as steadfast a
Democrat as Hatch is Republican.
Cotter is 53, a third-grade teacher
in Los Angeles who can recall
stumping for Adlai Stevenson as a
junior igh school student in
1956.

“Politics used to play a tremen-
dous part in my day-to-day life,”
she says, sitting in a borrowed
office at the United Teachers of
Los Angeles, where she serves on
the union’s board. “I was very
active. I still am, somewhat, but
I’ve found that as I’ve gotten
older, I spend more time on me.”

She hasn’t lost faith in the
political system but is increasingly
disgusted with politicians and the
meanness it seemingly takes to
win. She cites the mudslinging in
California’s Senate race between
Republican Rep. Michael Huffm-
gton and Democratic incumbent
Dianne Feinstein.

“The ads have become increas-
ingly negative on both sides,” she
says. “It’s a rime example of how
things can (figenerate. This is not
how we ought to be picking candi—
dates or addressing issues.”

In 1897, William James, the
psychologist and philosopher, said
there was only one unconditional
commandment: “to vote and to act
as to bring about the very largest
total universe of good which we
can see.”

In 1994, William James, the
barber, smiles serenely in the din
of his comfortably disheveled shop
in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section
of Brooklyn and says: “I’m going
to vote, no ifs, ands or buts about
it.”

But to bring about “the largest
total universe of good?”

James is a tall and bony man of
63. His gray-specked hair springs
out around the sides of a battered
fedora.

He is a church—goin man,
roud of being one of t e first
lack Marines, and he cuts

through olitical double-talk as
easily as e buzz—cuts a head of
hair.

“All politicians are liars,” he
says. “I think it’s been the same
ever since I could remember. It’s
just promises, promises, promises,
and they all get broken anywa .”

But still, he votes. “You hope
it’s going to be better,” he says.
“You elect some man, you hope
he’s going to change things.”

It’s just that, ifyou’re William
James — or Phil Evans, or Flo-
rence Egan, or any number of
American voters this gloomy Elec-
tion Da — you don’t dare hope
too hard’.’

 

   

 

Robb, North
neck and neck
in Va. mce

Associated Press

Locked in a race as close and
combative as any in the nation,
Virginia Democratic Sen.
Charles Robb and Republican
Oliver North
neared the fin-
ish line yester-
day in one of a
handful of con—
tests likely to
determine con-
trol of the Sen—
ate.

At a noon-
time rally with Vice President
Al Gore at his side, Robb
attacked North and his conser—
vative crusade. “We reject his
appeal to intolerance we
reject his contempt for the
Constitution and the rule of
law.”

North. the key figure in the
Iran-Contra arms—for-hostages
scandal, forecast his own nar-
row victory. “Turn out and
vote,” he said at a midday rally
in Roanoke. “That’s what’s
goin to make the difference.”

T e political dynamic was
unlike any other: North, con-
victed in the Iran-Contra affair,
was a national figure in his first
time on the ballot, able to raise
$18 million. Even so, the state’s
other Republican Sen. John
Warner, rejected him as
untrustworthy, and cam-

- , pai ed heavil
wit Marshall
‘ Coleman, the
inde endent
§ can idate in the
. race.

 

North

Not that
l Robb didn’t
Robb ' have political

problems of his
own. The first-term senator
has been tarnished by a lon -
time feud with former Gov. lg...
Dou las Wilder, his confession
that he had accepted a massage
from a woman other than his
wife and by reports — which he
denied — he had been around
ille al drugs while governor.
ilder briefly entered the
race as an inde endent, then
withdrew in the nal few weeks
and campaigned for Robb.

 

 

 

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