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Article: Combative Robb, Allen Rally Partisans; As Zingers Fly, Campaigns Take Shape During Conventions
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- The Washington Post
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- June 4, 2000
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U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb (D) and Republican challenger George
Allen used competing party conventions in Virginia yesterday to sound
the defining themes of their campaigns, while unleashing the harshest
and most sustained attacks yet on each other's values and records.
"Chuck, it's time to quit hiding behind parliamentary chicanery
and paid attack dogs," Allen said in Virginia Beach, where more than
1,000 GOP leaders cheered his demand for five televised debates with
Robb.
Minutes later in Norfolk, Robb delivered jabs of his own, telling
a similar-size crowd of fellow Democrats that Allen was "no friend of
education" and a conservative ideologue now trying to mask a record
that was hostile ...