THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, August 27, 1994 TAG: 9408270263
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY KEITH MONROE, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 48 lines
Republican Oliver North swept through South Hampton Roads on Friday to address constituencies crucial to his candidacy for the Senate.
He spoke to the Downtown Republican Club at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott, and to anti-abortion supporters at Hope Haven Children's Home in Virginia Beach.
In Norfolk, Attorney General Jim Gilmore and Jim Miller, North's challenger for the GOP nomination, attacked the crime bill passed by the Senate Thursday night. They praised North's commitment to pork-free law and order.
``If Ollie North had been senator instead of Chuck Robb,'' Miller said, ``he would have cast the deciding vote on the crime bill.'' By voting ``no'' instead of ``yes'' as Democratic Sen. Charles S. Robb did, Miller said, North could have prevented the bill from becoming law.
North took up the theme by asserting that the resurrection of the crime bill ``like Lazarus, is proof of the awesome power of liberals in Washington.''
North also asked the Downtown Republicans for their prayers, their pledge of commitment and their financial support, because ``money is the ammunition of politics.''
His next stop was Hope Haven Children's Home, located in a field of soybeans in rural Virginia Beach.
In the chapel of the Children's Home, a series of anti-abortion speakers endorsed North and praised adoption as an alternative to abortion.
North criticized ``Chuck Robb and his backers at (the National Abortion Rights Action League) who think the only alternative is abortion.'' North promised to oppose abortion and support adoption if elected, so that ``no child need ever feel unwanted.''
From Hope Haven, North's Winnebago moved to a barbecue at a Knights of Columbus Hall in Ocean View and an evening fund-raiser.
He will appear at 8 a.m. today at a meeting in the Ocean View Senior Center, 600 E. Ocean View Ave.
KEYWORDS: CANDIDATE U.S. SENATE RACE
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