ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, November 22, 1996 TAG: 9611250116
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
Newcomer outmatches Rep. Dornan
LOS ANGELES - Rep. Bob Dornan, the bare-knuckled conservative known as ``B1-Bob'' for his ardent support of military projects, was toppled from office after nine terms by Loretta Sanchez, a financial adviser who had never before won political office, new vote totals showed Thursday.
Dornan, 63, has said voter fraud would cost him a 10th term. He claimed noncitizens voted and ballot boxes were not securely transported.
Sanchez, a Republican until 1992, held a 665-vote lead over Dornan, 47,205 to 46,540. Orange County Registrar of Voters Rosalyn Lever said Thursday she had determined that 1,300 provisional ballots remained untallied in the 46th District, and she hoped to count those votes today. Provisional ballots are granted to voters whose identifications, addresses or other information can't immediately be verified.
The registrar did not call the race, but Dornan would have to win 983 of those ballots, or 75.6 percent, to win.
- Associated Press
Housing secretary 7th to leave Cabinet
WASHINGTON - Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros said Thursday he will leave the Cabinet, depriving President Clinton of a trusted political adviser vexed by lingering personal troubles.
Cisneros, the seventh of the 14 Cabinet members to indicate he won't be staying for Clinton's second term, said he is leaving because he needs to seek a higher-paying job outside government. His salary as secretary of housing and urban development is $148,400 a year.
Cisneros has one daughter in college and another in law school. He also has legal bills from the ongoing probe into whether he lied to the FBI about payments to a former mistress. The investigation cast a pall over his ability to remain at HUD because of the legal bills it continues to generate.
- Associated Press
CIA official indicted on single spy charge
ALEXANDRIA - Career CIA officer Harold J. Nicholson was indicted Thursday on a charge of selling national defense information to the Russians since 1994 for more than $180,000.
The one-count indictment, returned by a federal grand jury, charged the 46-year-old former CIA station chief with conspiracy to commit espionage. The charge carries a top penalty of life in prison without parole.
- Associated Press
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