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THE BANNERGRAPHIC, Novembers, 1986
Lottery, abortion funds among ballot questions in 43 states
By CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer Chatting with voters, speaking in interviews, writing in campaign literature, referendum organizers present this year’s crop of ballot issues in stark terms of good and bad. “It’s just plain wrong,” asserts George Harper. “We recognize this to be a moral issue,” says Kevin McCray. “Organized crime will be involved,” warns Robert Dempsey. Harper, a Helena, Mont., minister, is leading opposition to a state lottery proposition, one of six such proposals on ballots around the nation. McCray is director of The Unborn Child Amendment Committee in Arkansas, which is promoting a measure that would prohibit spending state money for abortions unless a mother’s life is in danger. Three other state ballots include abortion funding measures. Dempsey, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, lined up with other officials against a county-option casino gambling proposition.
GOP expected to gain governorships
c. 1986 N. Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Republican officials are predicting gains of six or more governorships in this Tuesday’s elections, a significant expansion of their party’s power in a realm where the Democrats have long held sway. A total of 36 states will elect governors Tuesday, including 27 where the office is now held by Democrats. With so many Democratic seats at stake, even Paul G. Kirk Jr., the Democratic chairman, expects the Republicans to make some gains. If the Republicans pick up six governorships, which several political experts described as a reasonable expectation, they would still be outnumbered, 28-22. If they gain 10, which some Republicans describe as their “best case scenario,” they would hold a majority of the governors’ seats for the first time since 1970. Regardless of the partisan lineup, the nation will send a new generation of men, and perhaps a historic number of women, to the governors’ mansions, since 19 of the current governors are not seeking for reelection. The governors’ races are a mirror image of the battle for the Senate, where the Republicans must defend 22 seats to the Democrats’ 12. In both cases, the parties are paying a price in vulnerability this year for victories of the past: the Republicans for their success in the 1980 Senate races, and the Democrats for their sweeping advances in the 1982 gubernatorial elections. As a result, the elections on Tuesday may send mixed signals. “I think you’ll end up with strong crosswinds,” said Harrison Hickman, a Democratic poll-taker. “The Banner Graphic (USPS 142-020) Consolidation of The Dally Banner Estebllahed 1850 The Harald The Dally Graphic Established 1883 Telephone 653-5151 Published dally except Sunday and Holidays by Banner Graphic, Inc. at 100 North Jackson St., Greencastle, IN 46135. Second-class postage paid at Greencastle, IN. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Banner Graphic, P.O. Box 500, Graancaatle, IN 46135 Subecrlptlon Rates Per Week, by carrier >1.20 Per Week, by motor route »1.25 Mall Subscription Rates R.R. In Rest of Rest of Putnam County Indiana U.S.A. 3 Months ‘17.40 ‘17.70 ‘19.00 6 Months ‘32.25 ‘32.80 ‘36.70 1 Tear ‘63.00 *64.00 ‘72.70 Mall subscriptions payable In advance ... not accepted In town and where motor route service Is available. Member of the Associated Preas The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed In this newspaper.
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Of course, moral arguments are raised, too, on the other side of these issues: supporters say that playing a game of chance can raise revenue for education and other purposes and that terminating a pregnancy should be a matter of choice. Voters will have the final say Tuesday on 226 measures on ballots in 43 states. Only Delaware, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin have no propositions. Other issues include: tax-cutting measures on five states’ ballots, and environmental protection propositions in Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, California and other states. Besides Montana, states with lottery proposals are Kansas, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota and Florida. According to a Miami Herald poll in midOctober, voter sentiment was running against casinos in Florida, 60 percent to 35 percent, but in favor of a lottery, 58 percent to 34 percent. Kansas voters, according to a poll by the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, favor amendments permitting a lottery, pari-mutuel wagering and liquor by the drink in
Democrats will end up winning a lot of Republican Senate seats and the Republicans will end up winning a lot of statehouses thought of as Democratic.” Kirk, the party chairman, is predicting a net loss of four seats, simply “because of the numbers.” The Republicans are hoping for gains in the West and in the South, two regions central to their longrange strategies for building the party’s strength at the grass-roots level. This week, Republican candidates appeared well-positioned in several states with retiring Democratic governors, political experts said, but they cautioned that most of those races were extremely close. Republican candidates were given excellent chances in New Mexico and Oklahoma, and were competitive in several other races for governorships now held by Democrats, according to analysts in both parties. In the once solidly Democratic South, Republican candidates were in close races in South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida and Texas. All, except Tennessee, are states where Democrats now hold the governorships. While political experts describe the gubernatorial elections as “36 separate races,” they say some common themes have emerged. Around the country, education and economic development have been a major focus of many campaigns, these experts say. Democrats are hoping that their party’s activist tradition on such issues will prevent major losses, even in regions most targeted by the Republicans. This could also be a breakthrough year for women as governors from both parties: Nine women are running for the office Tuesday, a historic high, according to the Women’s Campaign Fund. The nation now has two women who are governors, Martha Layne Collins of Kentucky and Madeleine M. Kunin of Vermont, who is seeking reelection. At least one new governor will be a woman as a result of Nebraska’s historic, and extremely close, match between two women: Helen Boosalis, a Democrat who is a former mayor of Lincoln, and Kay Orr, a Republican who is the state treasurer. Women are also in close gubernatorial races in Alaska, Arizona and Oregon, political experts say. And in Connecticut, State Rep. Julie Belaga, a Republican, was challenging Gov. William A. O’Neill.
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Majority in the Senate at stake in Tuesday voting
WASHINGTON (AP) - The long and nasty 1986 campaign is closing out with Democrats optimistic about regaining control of the Senate and Republicans insisting they will beat the historic odds by minimizing losses in Congress and gaining several governorships. On the last full day of campaigning, President Reagan kept hammering away in his drive to keep the Senate in Republican control. He
restaurants. Drinks are now served only in private clubs in Kansas, a limitation Gov. John Carlin has called hypocritical. In addition to Arkansas, states with measures that would restrict government funding for abortions are Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Oregon. Patrick McGuigan, editor of the newsletter Initiative and Referendum Report, called them close contests. Tax-slashing measures include California’s Proposition 62, which would require a two-thirds vote of the local governing body and a majority vote of the people to increase tax levies. Under Montana’s Initiative 27, all property taxes would be abolished and a vote of the people would be required for creation of a sales tax or any increase in a sales tax or income taxes. Opponents say public services, including police protection and highway maintenance, would suffer. In Massachusetts, voters will decide whether to cap taxes by holding state tax revenue growth to the level of growth in wages of state residents.
had appearances today for GOP underdog candidates Jim Santini in Nevada and Ed Zschau in California. In addition to deciding party control of the Senate, where Republicans now have a 53-47 majority, voters will select 36 governors, determine the makeup of the 435-member House and select thousands of state legislators and local officials. As the campaign neared its end, word came from the Middle East that David Jacobsen, an American being held hostage in Lebanon, had been released after 17 months in captivity. Democratic and Republican leaders said they doubted his release would have an impact on the U.S. \ elections. Republicans were talking about having a long-shot chance to come out of the election with a majority of the nation’s governorships. There are Democratic governors in 27 of the 36 states choosing chief executives and 15 of them are not running for re-election. A gain of 10 would give the GOP a majority. The House was certain to remain in control of the Democrats who have a 253-180 majority. Two seats
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formerly held by Republicans are vacant. White House political aide Mitch Daniels said that even if the GOP fails to keep its majority in the Senate, the party will win more than half of the 34 Senate races on Tuesday. Not since World War 11, said Daniels, has a president’s party won a majority of the Senate races in his sixth-year midterm. Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., chairman of the Republican National Committee, took a similar tack, saying on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press” that it was remarkable to even be talking about the GOP retaining Senate control. In a five-minute echo of his recent campaign speeches, the president appealed to Americans on Sunday night to “please vote. And, please vote Republican.” The pre-recorded advertisement was broadcast on the ABC, NBC and CBS television networks at a cost of $500,000, a price Republicans would consider well worth it if Reagan swayed votes to GOP candidates in half a dozen key states that both sides agreed were too close to call.
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Colorado’s Proposition 4 stipulates that no new state or local tax could be levied without a vote of the people. In Oregon, voters will weigh four overlapping proposals affecting sales, property or income taxes. Many environmental measures focus on toxic wastes. Referendum 40 in Washington state would protest the selection of Hanford nuclear reservation as a finalist to become the nation’s nuclear waste dump. Other finalists are Yucca Mountain, Nev., and Deaf Smith County, Texas. New York’s proposed Environmental Quality Bond Act would allocate $1.2 billion for cleaning up waste sites; S2OO million would go to that purpose under a New Jersey bond issue. In Massachusetts, a referendum would set a timetable for cleaning up toxic waste sites, arid an Oregon measure would close the state’s only nuclear power plant until a federal nuclear waste repository is operating. A California proposition would stiffen standards on the discharge and labeling of toxic chemicals.
Keep faith, Jacobsen tells others WIESBADEN, West Germany (AP) David Jacobsen, saying he felt fit enough for a long jog after 17 months of captivity in Lebanon, today told the families of other American hostages to keep the faith that their loved ones will likewise be freed. Jacobsen, who in a videotape released by his captors several weeks ago had criticized the Reagan administration for what he termed inaction on the hostages, also said he was proud to be American. The director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, who was freed Sunday, arrived at the U.S. military air station in Wiesbaden aboard a Lear jet chartered by the State Department after he was flown out of Beirut to Cyprus aboard an American military helicopter. He gave a brief news conference at the airport in Larnaca, Cyprus, before flying to West Germany, where he will undergo a thorough physical examination and be debriefed by U.S. authorities. Some of his family members are expected to fly from the U.S. to Wiesbaden for a reunion with Jacobsen before they go home together. “The best things in life are free, and by God they are,” he told journalists upon arrival in Wiesbaden at about 11:30a.m. (S:3Oa.m.EST). The bearded, 55-year-old Jacobsen looked tired and drawn, with bags under his eyes. Earlier, in Cyprus he said: “To Jean Sutherland and the daughters, to the family of Terry Anderson and familes of the other American hostages, and to all the other hostages, I would like to just give you a message, a message that served me well. “It is the last verse of the 27th Psalm: ‘I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord and the the land of the living. Trust in the Lord. Have faith. Do not despair. Trust in the Lord because there is goodness.’” He added: “Keep faith. The guys will get out because of guys like Terry Waite.” Jacobsen was accompanied by Anglican church envoy Terry Waite, who has been acting as a negotiator with Moslem extremists holding hostages in Lebanon. Waite said in Cyprus: “I very much hope it will be possible for me to be back here (in the Middle East) soon and to pursue the cause of the remaining hostages.” Waite, an emissary of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, reportedly has been shuttling between Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus since Thursday in an effort to free foreign hostages in Lebanon. It was not clear what role he had in Jacobsen’s release. Six Americans and 13 other foreigners remain missing in Lebanon. Wearing brown slacks and a maroon sweater, Jacobsen joked with reporters in Cyprus asking about his health, saying, “Does anybody want to challenge me to a six mile jaunt around this airport?” Jacobsen also said: “In spite of my video appearances, I am darned proud to be an American.
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