
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, October 5, 1994                   TAG: 9410140127
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO  
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ALLEGATIONS OF TIE IMPROPRIETY ARE TRUE

After a day of charges, countercharges and high-speed fax transmissions from Virginia's U.S. Senate campaigns, it can be safely reported that Charles Robb did make an ill-advised choice in his neckwear on Labor Day.

But how was Robb supposed to know, aides say, that a tie he wore to receive the endorsement of the state's highest-ranking black elected official was a little-known symbol of the Confederacy?

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