EX-SENATOR WILL KEYNOTE BREAKFAST; MAYOR'S PRAYER BREAKFAST MARCH 1

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Former Sen. Bill Armstrong of Colorado will be the keynote speaker for the Fourth Annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast at the Show Me Center.

The event, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Christian Businessmen's Committee, will be held from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. on March 1.

Armstrong last year stunned national and Colorado political observers with his announcement that he would not seek a third Senate term in 1990. The Grand Junction, Colo. Daily Sentinel called his decision "an enormous loss for Colorado and all Americans."

In his 12 years in the U.S. Senate and six years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Armstrong established a reputation as a principled, serious-minded, issue-oriented legislator willing to wage full-scale battles for causes he believed important to the nation.

He won "the gutsiest member of the Senate" award from the Washingtonian magazine for his "willingness to fight federal spending abuses." Armstrong also has been a regular winner of the National Taxpayer's Union "Taxpayer's Friend" and "Guardian of Small Business" awards.

The Almanac of American Politics says Armstrong combines the conservatism of one whose politics is routed in deep religious faith with a certain practicality and ability to deal with the world as it is.

Armstrong also has an active interest in business. He is president of television station KPVI in Idaho and was the former president of the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper and a Denver-based Radio Station, KEZW.

The breakfast will be held at the Convention Center of Cape Girardeau's Show Me Center. Available seating is limited and people are encouraged to obtain tickets early, and seats will be assigned in the order tickets are received.

Past prayer-breakfast speakers include Adolph Coors in 1988, Kyle Rote Jr. in 1989 and Los Angeles Police Chief Bob Vernon in 1990.