Page 8AThe Battalion/Thursday, November 6, 1986 World and Nation - 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.” When the 100th Congress | seated in January, Dole will trade® title of Senate majority leaderlSI Senate minority leader. Hestilh.fi be in a position of leadership,I® won’t be tied down by having to nB the Senate. BB ( The other side of the coin is [}| he won’t have the arm-twisiiB power he had before, and thespSI light will be weaker. 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