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- THE WEEK, Page 11NATIONScore Another for Anita Hill
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- Senate challenger Lynn Yeakel is an upset winner in Pennsylvania
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- In a year when Americans are keen to throw the insiders out
- and vote the outsiders in, women candidates continue to find
- uncommon success at the ballot box. Last week Pennsylvania
- Democrats tapped Lynn Yeakel, 50, a Main Line matron with no
- experience in elected office, to run against Republican Senator
- Arlen Specter in November. Yeakel, who founded Women's Way, a
- coalition of charities that raised nearly $2 million last year
- for a variety of women's causes, jumped into the race after
- watching the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee grill Anita
- Hill. "I looked at those 14 men," she said, "and I thought,
- These are not the people I want running my life and my
- children's and grandchildren's lives."
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- Yeakel, who has said she wants to make the fall campaign
- in part a referendum on Specter's memorably merciless
- questioning of Hill, joins Illinois Senate hopeful Carol Moseley
- Braun at the top of a growing list of women who are riding the
- perception that women will prove to be natural reformers of a
- broken-down system that has kept them at arms' length. Daughter
- of an 11-term Congressman, Yeakel did not run a shoestring
- campaign; she spent about $200,000 of her own money.
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- In another low-turnout presidential primary, Arkansas
- Governor Bill Clinton won 57% of the vote to former California
- Governor Jerry Brown's 26%. Clinton's win means that he now has
- three-fourths of the delegates he needs to secure the
- nomination. George Bush beat Patrick Buchanan by 77% to 23%, and
- though the victory still left the President a few delegates shy
- of clinching the G.O.P. nomination, he seized it nonetheless.
- "It's wonderful," he said, "to be officially over the top."
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- Clinton's aides took heart from exit polls showing that
- 61% of Democrats believed that he had the honesty and integrity
- to be President. But the much touted survey was of Democrats
- only; a far more telling gauge of the public mood -- sobering
- for both Clinton and Bush -- was polls showing that Texas
- billionaire Ross Perot is running neck and neck with Bush and
- ahead of Clinton in California, Texas and New Mexico, which
- together are worth one-third of the electoral votes required to
- win the presidency.
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