NOTHING LAME ABOUT THIS LAME DUCK

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Thursday, January 23, 1992

Speaking with the kind of conviction that friends have never mistaken for political pap, John Ashcroft says he will make his final year in the executive office a time of progress and achievement. If he makes good on his pledge he will defy the rules of politics, which hold that a governor's last year in office is one filled with frustration and inertia.

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