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DATE: THURSDAY, March 12, 1992                   TAG: 9203120098
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
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GE UNION SEEKING KERRY REPLACEMENT

The International Union of Electronic Workers is looking for a new presidential candidate to support after Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerry dropped out of the Democratic race, an IUE official said Wednesday in Salem.

Dewey Minton of Louisville, Ky., chairman of the IUE-General Electric Conference Board, said he and his union were backing Kerry because "he sure had ideas . . . so much in advance of all others" in the race. Minton expressed no opinion on Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, current front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Minton, who came to Salem to swear in new officers of IUE Local 161 at the GE plant, said labor's next big task is to win congressional approval of a bill prohibiting replacement of strikers. - Staff report

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