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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17Quixote Watch
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- An Update on the Year's Most Unlikely Candidates
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- ALCEE HASTINGS
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- The U.S. Senate ousted the former federal judge last year
- following bribery allegations. He's now running for the
- Democratic nomination for Florida secretary of state,
- advocating casino gambling. His opponents: a newspaper
- columnist and a former Grand Dragon of the K.K.K.
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- EVAN MECHAM
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- The former Arizona Governor embarrassed many constituents
- by rescinding a state holiday for Martin Luther King. Then, in
- 1988, he was impeached by the legislature for misuse of funds.
- He's dusted himself off and is a long shot for the Republican
- nomination for his old job.
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- JOHN SILBER
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- The pugnacious president of Boston University was considered
- a political asterisk last January when he began his candidacy
- to succeed Governor Michael Dukakis. Despite a string of
- outrageous statements and an undisguised high opinion of
- himself, Silber stands a good chance to get the Democratic nod.
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- DAVID DUKE
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- The ex-Klansman won a seat in the Louisiana legislature as
- a Republican and is running for the U.S. Senate; in spite of
- recent revelations that he once used a pseudonym to co-author
- a book that included explicit sexual techniques, he hopes to
- force a runoff with Democrat J. Bennett Johnston.
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- RON DANIELS
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- An assistant campaign manager for Jesse Jackson in 1988,
- he announced last week that he is "seriously exploring" his own
- independent run for President in 1992. Daniels advocates D.C.
- statehood, a slowdown in prison construction to boost social
- spending, and reparations to descendants of slaves.
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