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Next month, Democratic vice presidential nominee Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.) will receive a $20,000 check for the mineral rights on his farm in Carthage, Tenn., just as he has almost every year since 1974. The check is the product of an unusually valuable lease for zinc rights his father, Albert Gore Sr., negotiated with the late legendary oil man, Armand Hammer, and passed on to him. A review of candidate Gore's personal finances, based on his financial disclosure statements, land records and interviews, shows that the $330,000 he has collected from the lease over the years has been his most ...

WASHINGTON, July 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Ad Hoc Committee in Defense of Life received the following press release from a Minnesota citizens' group on July 17 -- almost two weeks ago -- but to date has seen no coverage of this news event in the major media. The Ad Hoc Committee is making available to the media nationwide the entire text of a release from the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life on the assumption that unbiased reporters will want to have it and that the story remains news that should be covered: The pro-life delegates from Minnesota were harassed ...

State and national leaders of forces opposed to abortions and gun controls are encouraging Gov. Rudy Perpich to run for president, and several of his aides say he is likely to do so. They are offering the Minnesota governor a ready-made national campaign organization and constituency for a presidential bid, they said in interviews this week. Some of Perpich's closest advisers say he's listening to their urgings. They predicted this week that the DFL governor will announce at least an exploratory candidacy for president in September, and campaign in Iowa, where the presidential nomination process begins. Antiabortion forces are interested ...