Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, January 7, 1994 TAG: 9401070180
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short
North, the central figure in the Iran-Contra controversy and the front-runner for the GOP nomination, said this week Miller is just trying to build up his name identification. It's not his place to help Miller, North said, adding that he might consider one or two debates.
"I do not know how he stands on the issues," Miller, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan, told Chesterfield County Republicans. "I have heard him speak 25 times, and I still don't know."
North and Miller are competing for the GOP nomination to run for the Senate seat held by Democrat Charles Robb.
A third Republican, former Washington prosecutor Jay Stephens, said Thursday he will not enter the race.
Stephens, 47, had been considering a bid but said he decided that after 12 years serving in the Reagan and Bush administrations, it is time to return to private life.
As U.S. attorney in Washington, Stephens investigated Illinois Rep. Dan Rostenkowski and former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry. But polls showed Virginia voters knew little about him.
Republicans are to nominate a Senate candidate at a June 3-4 meeting in Richmond.
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