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Week in Review
Iraq releases more hostages
Iraq continues to announce hostage releases in a trickle. The
latest: 77 Js^anese, 20 Italians, five Swedes, two Germans, two
Portuguese and two Australians will be freed this week.
Also Tuesday, The Red Cross said Baghdad had agreed to let
it serve as courier for “human shields” who wanted to write
letters home to relatives and friends in the USA.
Gas prices finally fall
Gasoline prices fell this week for the first time since S^L
18. But experts say the drop probably will not last
Motorists were paying an average of $1.37 for a gallon of
self-serve regular unleaded gas Monday. That is three-tenths of a
cent less than the week before.
The highest pices reported came OcL 29 at $1.38 a gallon.
D.C. elects new mayor; Marion Barry loses
Voters in the nation’s capital ushered in a new political era
Tuesday by electing a new mayor; giving Rev. Jesse Jackson a
“shadow senator” post; and turning back Mayor Man on Barry s
bid for an at-large seat on the City Council.
Democrat Sharon Pratt Dixon had a mountainous lead over
Republican Maurice Turner, the former D.C. police chief, in the
race for maycw.
Victory for the hearing impaired
When Gertrude Galloway becomes superintendent of the
Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf in January, it will be a
victory for the hearing-impaired.
She will become the USA’s first deaf woman to head a ^
school for the hearing-impaired and the Ewing, NJ., school s
first deaf top administrator in its 107-year history.
Columbia drug lords kidnap journalists
Colombia’s top drug traffickers said they had kidnaped
seven journalists in a protest of what they called police torture
and massacres of colleagues in the cocaine cartel.
No incumbent backlash in Senate races
The nation’s most exclusive club appeared to withstand
voter dissatisfaction with Washington Tuesday as most Senate
incumbents wot re-election.
Senators were helped by huge campaign funds and a late
burst of TV ads.
That could be welcome news to President Bush and the
GOP, which needs to keep close to its 45 Senate seats to protect
Bush vetoes during the next two years.
Kahane followers vow revenge
The assassinatiOT of P.abbi Meir Kahane brought vows of
revenge Tuesday against Arabs in Israel and the USA.
While tens of thousands of mourners paid their respects at
Kahane’s Brooklyn funeral, trouble loomed following his slaying
in a New York hotel Monday night.
‘There will be revenge,” said Sol Maigolis, president of
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Danger signals flashing?
Bush campaigns hard, but GOP loses ground
By RICHARD BENEDETT
©Copyright 1990
USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network
WASHINGTON — Few
politicians campaigned harder this
long 1990 election season than
President Bush.
A former Republican National
Committee chairman himself, he
appeared at 115 fund-raisers and
raised nearly $90 million for GOP
candidates.
On the last six days of the
campaign, he visited eight states
— slates where the races were
tightest — jetting from coast to
coast, urging voters to get out and
help his fellow Republicans.
But when Tuesday’s dust
finally settled, and most of the
ballots were counted. Bush found
his party split, many candidates he
worked hard for going down in
flames, fewer GOP seats in the
House of Representatives, the
economy in decline and his own
political future cloudy, if not
shaky.
“I don’t see red lights yet, but
I sec a lot of flashing yellow
don't see red
lights yet, but I see a
lot of flasliiiig yellow
lights."
- Lany Sabato
Univ. of Virginia
lights,” said Larry Sabato,
University of Virginia political
scientist.
White House political
strategists heatedly denied that
Tuesday’s elections were a
referendum on Bush’s job
performance. Republican National
Committee spokesman Charles
Black downplayed the losses,
saying the GOP had done better
than usual for a party in control of
the White House.
“We’ve beaten the historical
odds,” he said.
Yet political analysts assert
the danger signals are there.
Whenever a president puts his
political prestige on the line by
campaigning, they say, he
assumes his presence will have
some effect on the voting. And he
has to take partial blame for
losses, whether he likes it or not.
“Bush doesn’t seem to have
helped anywhere. He can’t be
feeling very good tonight,” said
Democratic National Committee
Chairman Ron Brown.
Analysts also say he must
quickly heal GOP wounds inflicted
by the split over taxes, and shed
the label of protector of the rich, if
he expects to govern effectively
over the next two years — and
win rc-clection in 1992.
“You just heard the opening
shots of a civil war within the
Republican Party,” said
conservative GOP strategist
Richard Viguerie.
Conservative Republicans say
they’re so miffed at Bush reneging
on his no-new-taxes pledge, and
other compromises with the
Democrats in Congress on issues
such as clean air, that they may
run a candidate against him in the
’92 GOP primaries.
(Richard Benedetto covers the
White House for USA TODAY)
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