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- THE WEEK, Page 21NATIONEt Cetera
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- NEWTON'S LAW
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- The voter rebellion that House minority whip Newt Gingrich
- helped foment bit back and drew some of Newt's own blood. The
- cantankerous seven-term Georgia Congressman won a nasty primary
- battle against little-known Herman Clark by a vapor-thin 980
- votes out of 70,384. Clark painted Gingrich as the sort of
- check-bouncing, pay-raising incumbent voters love to unseat.
- Still, barring a massive collapse of Republican support in
- Atlanta's affluent northern suburbs, Gingrich is a good bet to
- win the general election this fall.
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- WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR?
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- As sergeant at arms for the U.S. House of Representatives,
- Jack Russ was any Congressman's best friend. For nearly 25 years
- he doled out pork, fixed parking tickets and covered bad checks
- at the House bank. But when the bank's irregularities came to
- light, Russ resigned, making himself ineligible for a
- $70,000-a-year pension -- at least until Representative Mervyn
- Dymally of California put Russ back on the payroll as his
- "adviser." Now Russ can get full health benefits and his
- pension.
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