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Article: Standing Pat Despite the anti-incumbent tide, Moynihan sails toward reelection
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 23, 1994
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Martin F. Nolan is a Globe associate editor.
LACKAWANNA, N.Y. -- The scene is like something from "Blade
Runner." Looming 20 stories over Lake Erie, a desolate hulk stood in
the October sunshine, the huge black oxygen furnace of the Bethlehem
Steel Co. awaiting a wrecking crew.
"This was once the greatest machine on earth," Daniel Patrick
Moynihan tells local officials, spreading his arms. "In World War
II, when 20,000 people worked here, the iron ore came in one end and
the USS Iowa battleship came out the other." The yard now employs
1,150; but, the senator insists, "The cheapest and best steel in the
world is made in the US. It wasn't 10 years ago or 20 years ago, but
it is now."
The ...