The Virginian-Pilot
                            THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, August 24, 1994             TAG: 9408240503
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A1   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   20 lines

THE RACE FOR SENATE IN VIRGINIA

ILLUSTRATION: Staff color photo by Ian Martin

Senate candidate L. Douglas Wilder shakes hands with George Eason

Jr., a worker at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, during Wilder's campaign

swing through Portsmouth. Also on Tuesday, Wilder claimed that a

political payback was the reason Bishop L.E. Willis encouraged a

coalition black churches to back U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb. Stories,

Page A4, A6.

KEYWORDS: U.S. SENATE RACE CANDIDATE by CNB