A vocal opponent of drug use, Curb advocated extension of the death penalty to include drug pushers whose narcotics trafficking resulted in a death.

Their opponents, led by Houston, advocated the annexation of Texas to the United States and peaceful coexistence with Native Americans.

Craig Benson, a Republican, was elected in a landslide after his Democratic opponent, Mark Fernald, a state senator, advocated an income tax.

Mr. Clinton quickly eclipsed Mr. Tsongas in the later primaries by denouncing the bitter medicine his opponent was advocating and sugar-coating his own campaign.

An opponent of student-power politics, Lord Swann advocated the use of the police to end sit-ins and urged the replacement of student grants with partial loans.

It did not satisfy those who wanted a fully legislative assembly, and Bulygin's opponents, discontented, advocated the strikes of September and October.

Economically the party favoured balanced budgets and free trade at a time when its opponents advocated protectionism.

Mr. Gulotta is "in Disneyland," he charged, adding that his opponent had advocated a wide array of tax increases.

A plant burning natural gas, which many opponents of Inter-Power have advocated, would produce less than one-sixth of the amount of the Inter-Power plant.

In the case of Kentucky voters, both major opponents of Mr. Wilkinson had advocated tax increases and attacked each other bitterly.