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...Tenth District of Massachusetts, liberal Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds, 47, an avowed homosexual who was censured last year for his 1973 affair with a male Capitol Hill page, drubbed Plymouth County Sheriff Peter Flynn. In the Seventh District, four-term Democratic Congressman Edward Markey, 38, a leading nuclear-freeze advocate, bested former State Senator Sam Rotondi, a conservative, with 57% of the vote...
...Sheriff vs. Schoolmarm...
...sitcom writer might be embarrassed to cast them. A prim, perky Republican, Judy Petty, 41, teaches Sunday school and on occasion has lectured schoolgirls on etiquette. Her Democratic opponent in the close race for Arkansas' Second Congressional District is Tommy Robinson, 42, a roughhewn, tough-talking sheriff who once suggested that a bounty hunter be sent to the Soviet Union to bring back the man who last year shot down the KAL airliner...
...record testifies to his suspicion of any authority but his own. He twice left chained prisoners outside a state penitentiary after officials refused to accept inmates from his overcrowded Pulaski County jail. When a black federal judge dispatched an official to oversee Robinson's facilities, the sheriff ousted the appointee and called the judge a "token...
Last May, when the U.S.S.R. pulled out of the Games, ironically citing inadequate security - and 16 countries followed suit, Olympic planners became more nervous, not less. "It is just a fact of life that terrorist countries are influenced by the Soviets," says Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block. "And if terrorists do make an attack, the Soviets can point to it as a case of 'See, we told...