NEW YORK (Reuters) - Short-dated U.S. Treasuries rose on Friday on news that Sen. Paul Wellstone, a liberal Democrat from Minnesota running for re-election next month, was killed in a plane crash.

Analysts said his death raised the odds that the Republicans could take control of the Senate, which would strengthen President Bush's militant stance against Iraq.

 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021025/bs_nm/markets_bonds_dc_22

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Democrat Senator Finds Anti-War Vote Does Not Hurt

October 25, 2002 10:34 AM ET

ELK RIVER, Minn. (Reuters) - Sen. Paul Wellstone thought he might be sacrificing his political career when he voted against a resolution authorizing President Bush to go to war against Iraq earlier this month.

But the Minnesota Democrat, locked in a tight re-election battle with Republican Norm Coleman, no longer thinks so.

"I agonized over what to do. I told my wife it might be the end of the race. The conventional wisdom in Washington was that if you cast that vote, you lose," Wellstone told Reuters.

 http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=politicsnews&StoryID=1634289

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BREAKING NEWS, CNN, October 25, 2002

EVELETH, Minnesota (CNN) -- Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia died Friday in a small plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, that also killed three staff members and two pilots.

The plane went down in snowy, frozen rain and then burst into flames in a wooded area about 7 miles east of Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport. Officials said the last contact with the plane was at 10:20 a.m. CDT when the plane was about 2 miles from the airport.

 http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/plane.crash.minn/index.html
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Published on Friday, October 25, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
Paul Wellstone Lives!
by Dennis Rahkonen

A woman dressed in black, holding a matching umbrella, stood before an impromptu wall of honor that had been hastily erected out of connected white cardboard on the front window of the Duluth Democratic Farmer-Labor Party headquarters.

She silently read the brief, heartfelt messages of grief and love, penciled in with red and blue markers...then added her own words.

Like the others, they were sentiments of ongoing commitment to the unwavering populist/progressive ideals that made Paul Wellstone the best senator this nation had.

Paul's indomitable status came from being harmoniously in tune with the magnificent empowerment impulse that drives common people everywhere to take democratic control of their lives, from unconscionable usurpers who use politics as a tool against the masses, for special-interest gain.

 http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1025-09.htm

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Short-Term Bonds Up on Wellstone Death
Fri Oct 25, 2:50 PM ET
By Daniel Grebler

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Short-dated U.S. Treasuries rose on Friday on news that Sen. Paul Wellstone, a liberal Democrat from Minnesota running for re-election next month, was killed in a plane crash.

Analysts said his death raised the odds that the Republicans could take control of the Senate, which would strengthen President Bush's militant stance against Iraq.

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