Page 8AThe Battalion/Thursday, November 6, 1986
World and Nation
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Election results affect presidential bids
1988 candidate, said, “We havet#:
Senate turnover resembles '80 elections
Republican strategist John Sea
Beverly Hills
jury selection
opens for trial
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)
— They were going to make mil
lions and become the elite of the
investment world, all before age
25, fueled by the take-it-all phi
losophy of the young guru of
their yuppie commune.
But some of the inner circle of
the group that called itself the
Billionaire Boys Club reported to
police that their chief told them
he and another member had slain
a Beverly Hills con man to
“achieve greatness” and obtain
$ 1.5 million.
Club master Joe Hunt, 25, free
on $500,()()() bond, faces jury se
lection this week for trial in the
slaying of con man Ron Levin,
whose body hasn’t been found.
The trial of Hunt’s alleged ac
complice in the Levin case, club
security chief James Pittman,
ended with a jury deadlocked 10-
2 for conviction. A retrial is
scheduled later this month.
Both men are charged with
murder in the course of a rob
bery, and murder for financial
gain — a $1.5 million check — in
the Levin case, special circum
stances that could bring the death
penalty if they are convicted.
Authorities also have charged
Hunt and several followers in the
July 1984 kidnap-slaying of He-
dayat Eslaminia, a member of
Iran’s parliament when the Shah
was in power. A trial in that case
is scheduled for December.
Hunt’s attorney, Arthur
Barens, said he will try to show
that Levin, faced with several civil
lawsuits and grand theft charges,
simply may have skipped town.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
1986 elections have scrambled the
equation for the 1988 presidential
race, giving Bob Dole and Jack
Kemp a stronger footing to chal
lenge George Bush, while letting
Democrats offer an alternative
agenda to President Reagan.
Of all the possible contenders for
the White House, Sen. Paul Laxalt,
R-Nev., appeared to have suffered
the biggest blow from the Demo
crats’ takeover of the Senate, which
put them in charge of both houses of
Congress for the first time since
1980.
Laxalt voluntarily gave up a safe
Senate seat, only to see it captured
by Democrats.
A Democratic win “could affect
my future plans,” Laxalt had ac
knowledged in advance. “It would
be a negative for me in 1988 . . .
(and) certainly is not going to give
Paul Laxalt any brownie points” with
GOP stalwarts.
On the Democratic side, Sen.
Gary Hart of Colorado didn’t run
for re-election so he could campaign
full time for the White House. His
seat remained Democratic with the
election of Rep. Timothy Wirth.
With only one declared candidate
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — The
United States and the Soviet Union
traded charges of human rights vio
lations Wednesday and then held
talks on how to carry out their Ice
land summit pledges for sharp re
ductions in,nuclear weapons.
Secretary of State George P.
Shultz, speaking at a 35-nation con
ference aimed at improving rela
tions between East and West, said “a
WASHINGTON (AP) — The bat
tle for the Senate this year was a mir
ror image of the 1980 election in
which Republicans seized control on
the strength of Ronald Reagan’s
coattails.
Only this time, there were no coat
tails and voters turned the tables on
the GOP and restored the Demo
crats to power.
In state after state where a Demo
crat was challenging a shaky Repub
lican incumbent, voters opted for a
change.
Reagan gave generously of his
time and prestige in an effort to save
the freshman senators he brought to
Washington with him six years ago.
But in many of the states where he
campaigned the hardest, voters
— former Delaware Gov. Pierre Du
Pont, a Republican — the 1988 race
is in its infancy. However, it will pick
up speed early next year with the
formation of campaign exploratory
committees, and then gather mo-
tragic human rights situation”
existed in the Soviet Union and
among its Eastern allies. He warned
that arms control would falter unless
the perceived abuses were corrected.
“Arms control cannot exist as a
process in isolation from other
sources of tension in East-West rela
tions,” Shultz said in a stern speech.
He addressed foreign ministers
reviewing the 1975 Helsinki
turned away from the Republicans.
Politicians, pollsters and academ
ics will sift through the mountain of
returns in a search for an explana-
Analysis
tion of what happened in this elec
tion.
But, at this point, there are more
questions than clear answers.
It clearly was a year of ticket-split
ting, particularly in the South.
In Senate and House races,
Southern voters came home to the
Democratic Party they supported so
faithf ully for generations.
But before the Democrats could
celebrate, the same voters elected
Republican governors in Alabama,
mentum over the next months with
declarations of candidacy.
Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware,
who is eyeing the presidential race,
said that with the Democrats in
power in the Senate, “we re going to
agreement’s promise of a freer ex
change of people and ideas across
the East-West divide.
The United States, the Soviet
Union, Canada and all European na
tions except Albania signed the Hel
sinki accords and are attending the
conference.
“If arms control measures are to
make a meaningful contribution to
stability,” Shultz said, “they can only
Florida and South Carolina.
In Alabama, Guy Hunt benefited
from a vicious split among Demo
crats to become the first Republican
governor of that state in 112 years.
Perhaps the lack of a national pat
tern was the pattern for this election,
further evidence of House Speaker
Thomas P. O’Neill Jr.’s favorite say
ing, “All politics is local.”
The best examples of that were in
Alabama and Georgia where Demo
cratic congressmen waged carefully
crafted campaigns, exploiting local
issues to upset Republican senators.
Endangered Republican Sen.
Steve Symms clearly benefited from
Reagan visits and held off a chal
lenge from Democratic Gov. John
Evans.
have an opportunity to set the
agenda ... to pul into sharper focus
what’s at stake.”
Sen. Alan Cranston. D-Calif., who
won a close race for a fourth term
but is not, himself, rumored as a
reinforce, never supplant, efforts to
resolve more fundamental sources
of suspicion and political confronta
tion.”
Shultz cited the confinement of
Andrei Sakharov, a physicist who
won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, to
the closed city of Gorky, and the im
prisonment of members of a Soviet
activist group monitoring the Hel
sinki accords.
assessing the election results. \
the “best news was for Bob Dole:
worst for George Bush.”
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Dole said.
Appearing on a television she r
with with Dole and Rep. JackKerJi
R-N.Y., Biden said. “If I G
George Bush. I’d l>e worriedab#
the two guvs I’m on this prop:®
with.”
\fter the speech, in which he
fered no new Western initiator
Shultz took up the unfinished b.
ness of the Iceland superpower sue
mil with Soviet Foreign Minister[i
uard A. Shevardnadze at the U
Embassy in Vienna.
Six top U.S arms control spec
ists came f rom Washington n:
Shultz, where they were joinedb
the three U.S. negotiators.
Superpower negotiators discuss human rights
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