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...feel they have no voice. They feel threatened by the elaborate technology of surveillance and intrusion now available, by the data banks, credit checks and mandatory drug tests on the job. Tom Hayden, the '60s activist who led the Students for a Democratic Society and is now a California assemblyman, takes a slightly mellower view. "I think this country is freer than I thought true in the 1960s," he says. He worries about the perennial American conflict between individualism and community responsibility. "At this point," he thinks, "we've tipped too far toward private interests." As Hayden says...
...strains between Aquino and the military could grow as the results of Salonga's Good Government investigation roll in. Privately, one pro-Aquino assemblyman suggested that the commission exercise prudence and not recklessly disturb Enrile, who served Marcos for more than 20 years. If the Defense Minister finds himself entangled in some complex commission investigation, say some Aquino supporters, Enrile, who oversees the country's 230,000-strong military, could easily do to Aquino what he did to Marcos: desert her government and move to establish...
Aquino's continuing resistance to Marcos' victory is nothing more than a calculated gamble that may yet provoke incalculable upheaval. Says Ramon Mitra, a National Assemblyman and an Aquino adviser: "We don't know whether we will be able to keep control over this. But we thought we would take the risk. We have to send a message to our friends that we are not taking this sitting down...
Some legislators admit to spending half their time seeking out potential contributors. Lawmakers "think about campaign money when they get up in the morning, they think about it all day, and they think about it at night," says San Francisco Assemblyman Art Agnos. Last week a California congresswoman was accused of thinking about it too much. A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted three-term Representative Bobbi Fiedler for allegedly offering to help State Senator Ed Davis retire a $100,000 campaign debt if he dropped out of a nine-way primary race for the Republican nomination...
...contend that the vast majority of welfare recipients are young unwed mothers with few if any marketable skills, who are often forced to take demeaning, low-paying jobs under workfare. Critics question whether there is even enough work to go around for the programs' undereducated participants. Says California Democratic Assemblyman Tom Bates: "When Ronald Reagan says, 'Go to the want ads and look for jobs,' he doesn't point out that they're for electrical engineers and highly skilled people...