European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse D flying High with the mint tr-1jm daily Magazine do. Election analysis. Page 27 on Navy nil routine Page 26 uhf menu. Rum Atio a a vol. 45. No. 202 thursday november 6, 1986 of is Iii id Foncil democrats take Senate 6 years of Republican control broken by the associated press democrats won control of die senile Tram Republic Cam in tuesday s midterm election and built a broader majority in us Home As americans Chote i 100thcontra certain to complicate president Reagan final two Yean in the while House. Out Point Senate majority Leader Bob dote of Kan Sas Laid at the polls were closing in the West that six Yean of Republican Senate Rule were at an end. It going to nuke it More difficult Tor the president he did. La s a question of whether it will be 53 or 55" democrats in the new lineup. Dole added. Republican held a 53-47 majority in the old Senate. Democrat won gop Senate seats in Florida Nort Carolina and Maryland and threatened vulnerable re publican freshmen from Dixie 10 the farm Belt the networks relying on Early poll results and projection said not a single democratic incumbent would fall to the Republican. Republicans also conceded that Democrat would add to their majority in the House if Only marginally. Democrats held a 253-182 Edge in the old House. The Republican National chairman seized on several gubernatorial victories to Call election Day 1986 a mixed Bui what was billed As a Victory 86"celebration Ai party Headquarters turned into a Politi Cal Wake. Vice president George Bush told Abc the loss of gop control in the Senate would complicate staying on the offensive in the last two years of the Reagan the main event of a Nasty expensive midterm Campaign was the Battle for supremacy in the Senate. If there was a Reagan revolution it s Over claimed House speaker Thomas p. O Neill. A mass. As he headed into voluntary retirement. O Neill Shouse Seal was won by Democrat Joseph Kennedy ii. Asked Why the republicans lost some seats. Whitehouse spokesman Larry Speakes filed various state he said the president s ambitious campaigning turned Many of Lite races involving republicans who won on his coattails in 1980 Inlo close con conceded that a democratic Senate could be tougher for the president but in won t alter the denied that Reagan had failed in his bid to Slop a democratic takeover of the people say Reagan lost. We believe he won see democrats on Page 28 gop headed for big statehouse gains by the associated press republicans loosened the democratic party longtime grip on statehouse tuesday capturing the Alabama Gover Norship for the first time since reconstruction and winning two Sun Bell prizes Florida and Texas. A hispanic Democrat turned Republican former Tampa mayor Bob Marti Nez won Florida s governor s mansion for the gop while a woman. Republican Kay Orr a staunch supporter of president Reagan took Nebraska from the democratic column. In California Republican Deukmejian won a second term tuesday defeating democratic los an Geles mayor Tom Bradley ii match of their 1982 contest. Altogether Republican candidates for governor won in five states and were leading in four others held by democrats going Inlo election Day. Democrats won in two states now held by the gop ten Nessee and Pennsylvania. If the trend held up it would produced net gain of at least six seats Short of the 10 the gop needed to capture a majority of the executive mansions. But there were More opportunities in late re porting Western Stales. The solid South that the democrats sed to talk about Ain t so solid any More said gop National chairman Frank Fahrenkopf. With in gubernatorial vacancies 15 of them created by retiring democrats re publicans saw an Opportunity for major gains and an outside Chance to capture a see top on Page 28 Jacobsen children reunited spend Day of of Foge Fher bvj.l.komimckiu4 Wendy Bourland staff writers Wiesbaden. Germany freed hostage David Jacobsen in High spirits after being reunited with his children tuesday joked that he is unemployed an announced he will run for Congress. Sec related a Torr unfortunately my Liming is very very bad said Jacobsen who was released sunday in Beirut Leb anon by Hii islamic jihad captors after 17 months the election was today. You re going to have to wait for two Yean. But i m going to do it. It s going to happen. It s in my destiny. The 55-year-old Hemington Beach calif., native Brake into lean several times during a 20-Miautc a e with hit family on a Balcony of the air force1 medical Center where he is undergoing med Texana there was no word on when he would return to the United slates but the Hospital commander did 1015 would be Complete wednesday. Jacobsen declined to answer reporter questions stood surrounded by his sons Eric anti Paul with their wives Catherine and Lori and his daughter Diane do fan with her husband Dwigh " want to share this Day of Joy with my kids. Let me have this Day please 1 ask you. I want to Tell you my greatest Joy As a father is that i be got the finest an children in the world and i m too Damn Young u be a taut taller which tin going to be very soon he said in reference to his daughter who is pregnant. Eric Jacobsen told the crowd of journalists patient Sand Hospital staff we re All Happy because we re Tak ing these David Jacobsen bracelets off the six then threw into the crowd bracelets similar to those worn in support of Vietnam prisoners of War. We re going to get Terry Anderson bracelets an Bracelet Lor All the other men and get them on our wrists and make sure we gel those people out As quickly As possible so they and their families can experience the Joy of a Day like today Eric said. During a rambling talk Jacobsen revealed some of the conditions he went through in Captivity. This is a great Opportunity to announce that i a unemployed broke need Money. I Don t have a place to live but i m easy to keep. I m Well trained 1 can live in a 6-by-6 Square. It costs about 25 cents a Day to keep me. I m houiebrakeo."jacobsT, who was the administrator of the Ameri can University Hospital in Beirut when he was Kidnap Ped in May 1985, said he has extreme Faith in god. In came out in me when i was sitting on the floor like a Rabbit be said. Cod has answered my prayer to i of Jacobsen said the Ian time he saw hostages Terr Anderson chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press and too Sutherland acting Dean of agriculture at the Ann Tir a University they were Well "1 Hope to god they re going to be coming out very soon and standing in win spot,1 he said. And by god continued on Page 28 Chart shows 3% civilian wage increase Page
