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...quickening torrent of lawyer donations to judges at all levels, is sparking what could be the first serious reform effort since the system settled into place in 1873. This week Chief Justice John Hill will take the extraordinary step of quitting the bench to lead a drive to abolish the elective process...
...Richard II's effort to impose a per capita levy helped touch off the Peasants' Revolt. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's version of the head tax may not inspire an uprising, but it certainly has angered a lot of Britons. Last week Parliament received Thatcher's plan, which would abolish property taxes on 18 million homeowners in England and Wales by 1994 and instead impose a fee ranging from $500 to $1,200 per person on 33 million adults. Thatcher seeks to raise some $12 billion in revenue for local governments, which currently receive most of their money from taxes...
...most dramatic successes in the countryside. The roads of Sichuan province, the rice bowl of China, teem with bicycles and mini-tractors hauling everything from geese and green beans to bricks and black vinyl sofas. In Guanghan county, one of the first two regions in the country to abolish the Mao-inspired communes and lease land back to farmers % under the family contract system, the per capita income of agricultural workers is 646 yuan ($174), almost four times as high as it was before the reforms...
...rules all but abolish interhouse dining at Quincy, period. No non-resident is permitted to enter the Quincy dining hall between noon and 12:30 p.m. or 1 and 1:30 p.m.--which means many Quadlings, who take classes in the Yard just like River house residents, may have only a half an hour to wolf down a meal between classes...
...press conference following the speech, he objected to the Reagan Administration's attempts to win $270 million in fresh funds for the rebels. "Military support to the contras," he charged, "has been the main excuse for the Sandinistas to do all they have done in the past: to abolish individual freedoms, to abolish pluralism, to make Nicaragua a more dictatorial society...