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...says that while Sullivan and his fellow independents may oppose rent control, they have never been serious enough to try to abolish it. They knew that their blue-collar ethnic constituencies wouldn't stand for it. But Walsh was different. Walsh was the businessman's candidate, and he has remained their advocate, according to Cyr. Two kinds of independents emerged; the old style neighborhood' politicians and the young issue-oriented ones...
...employment as well as education: race-conscious goals are permissible so long as they do not become permanent, rigid quota systems. In the term just concluded, Powell cast the swing vote in upholding a promotion plan for black Alabama state troopers. But the Reagan Administration has been campaigning to abolish numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women, and Powell could be replaced by a Justice who agrees with the Administration position...
Gone were pledges to abolish the House of Lords, to nationalize huge segments of industry and to control private banking policy. Labor's highest priority this time: reduce unemployment by 1 million within two years, at a cost of $10 billion, mainly through public works programs. Kinnock also stood by his party's unilateral nuclear-disarmamen t position -- even though it remains an electoral liability. The Tories charged that Labor "would abandon the defense policy followed by every British government, Labor or Conservative, since World War II." Said Social Democratic Leader Owen: "On defense, Labor remains a menace...
...devoured Plato's works. With equal speed and assurance, he acquired his scorn for educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks in favor of general ratings (honors, pass, fair) arrived at by essay questions and oral examinations...
...never a hotbed of anarchist agitation. But that was before voters in the tiny resort town of Crystal Beach (est. pop. 1,200) decided that rather than fight city hall, they ought to get rid of it. And so they did, voting 314 to 245 earlier this month to abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town's 45-m.p.h. speed limit. "Crystal Beach...