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Missouri rejects tax plan; Washington rejects euthanasia
The Associated Press
Washington voters rejected a "death with dignity" initiative yesterday that would have been the world's only law giving terminally ill patients the legal right to end their lives with a doctor's help.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, 55 percent of voters were opposed.
And Missouri voters trounced a bid to raise taxes to help schools.
Voters in Missouri rejected a $385 million tax package to cut school sizes and lift the teaching profession. With 40 percent of the precincts counted, 70 percent opposed the measure.
In other voting across the nation,
Democratic Lt. Gov. Brereton Jones
was elected governor of Kentucky in
off-year balloting. Appointed Democratic
Sen. Harris Wafford led former
Governor Richard Nixon to a burial in Pennsylvania in a campaign with ominous overtones for President Bush.
The battle over Washington state's Initiative 119 drew worldwide attention. It would have legally sanctioned active euthanasia, such as a lethal injection, and assisted suicide, such as prescribing a deadly dose of pills.State and national medical groups and anti-abortion activists vigorously campaigned against the measure
Mississippi's Democratic Gov. Ray Mabus was locked in a close race with Republican Kirk Fordice in the other governor's race of the night.
Supporters, including the state Decorative party and AIDS activists, had called it a long-overdue right.
Washington state also voted on imposing term limits designed to curtail the careers of House Speaker Tom Foley, other members of Congress and state officials. It also voted on a first-in-the-nation plan to legalize doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
Texans approved a constitutional amendment to lift a 146-year-old ban on lotteries. Texas voters also backed a $1.1 billion prison bond, as well as up to $300 million in bonds to finance college loans.
With 37 percent of Pennsylvania's 9,428 presections reporting, Wofford had 609,659 votes or 61 percent, to 396,379 votes or 39 percent for Thornburg. Wofford was running strongly in traditional GOP strongholds in the race to fill out the three years remaining in the term of the late Sen. John Heinze.
In Kentucky, Jones had 65 percent of the vote, to 35 percent for his Republican rival, Rep. Larry Hopkins, with 99 percent of the precincts tallied. The victory by Jones, a former West Virginia Republic, extended a 24-year Democratic hold on the governor's office.
In Mississippi, it was Fordice with 190,626 or 49 percent, to Mabus' 188,533, or 48 percent, with 61 percent of the vote counted. Independent Shawn O'Hara had the balance. The Democratic House will pick a winner in January if no candidate gains a majority.
Mississippi Democrats have elected governors in the state for more than 100 years, but Mabus was the first to take advantage of a constitutional change permitting him to seek a second consecutive term.
Republican state legislator George Allen was elected to the House from Virginia. He led Democrat Kay Slaughter, 63 percent to 34 percent, with 64 percent of the votes tallied. Allen will replace retiring Republican D French Slaughter, Kay Slaughter's cousin.
Democrat Ed Rendell was elected mayor of Philadelphia, succeeding outgoing W. Wilson Goode.
In Indianapolis, former prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith, a Republican, won his race to succeed outgoing four-term William Hudnut III.
Kurt Stickmoke will his second term as Baltimore's mayor, and Ray Flynn will succeed him.
But Kathy Whitmire trailed wealthy developer Bob Lanier and state Rep Sylvester Turner in her bid for a fifth term in Houston in a race in which the two top candidates met the event of a tie, the two top vote得们 would be forced into a runoff.
Washington, D.C. voters approved making manufacturers and sellers of certain assault weapons liable for damage caused by their use. The city perpetually struggles with violent crime.
The Pennsylvania race was the crown jewel of off-year balloting, with the White House and the nation's entire political establishment watching closely in anticipation of the 1992 presidential and congressional campaigns.
Wofford, 65, was appointed to the seat after Heinz, a Republican, died in a plane crash in the spring.
Thornburgh, 59, became an over-
whelming favorite when he resigned
to the team.
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