On the Scene: Does Anita Hill Have Skirt Tails?

ANGER over Arlen Specter’s questioning of Anita Hill induced Lynn Yeakel to run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. Exit polls indicate that many of those who voted for her in the Democratic primary did so for the same reason. But can the Year of the Woman survive the general election?

Until Harris Wofford beat Dick Thornburgh last year to fill the seat left vacant by Senator John Heinz’s death, the Democrats hadn’t won a Senate seat in the state since 1962. Arlen Specter must have seen that coming when he left the party of George McGovern for that of Jacob Javits to run for Philadelphia DA in the Sixties.

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ANGER over Arlen Specter’s questioning of Anita Hill induced Lynn Yeakel to run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. Exit polls indicate that many of those who voted for her in the Democratic primary did so for the same reason. But can the Year of the Woman survive the general election?

Until Harris Wofford beat Dick Thornburgh last year to fill the seat left vacant by Senator John Heinz’s death, the Democrats hadn’t won a Senate seat in the state since 1962. Arlen Specter must have seen that coming when he left the party of George McGovern for that of Jacob Javits to run for Philadelphia DA in the Sixties.