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...assertions were not entirely outlandish. Raymond Mabus Jr., a wispy, cocksure state auditor, had spent four years in a zealous crusade against public corruption during his first term in public office. Then, in an iconoclastic campaign for Governor, he railed against the decadence of "old- time politics and the oldtime politicians." Last week, at 39, he was elected one of the nation's youngest Governors and the leader of an awakening movement to free Mississippi from its long-standing image of lethargy and backwardness...
...statehouse. Mike Moore, 35, a county district attorney who until recently was scarcely known outside his Gulf Coast habitat, was elected attorney general, the youngest since 1912. Pete Johnson, 39, a third-generation politician who counts a grandfather and an uncle among former Mississippi Governors, was elected state auditor, replacing Mabus. Said Johnson: "This has been a mandate that Mississippians want to see our state move forward." In other rites of passage, John Stennis, 86, has announced his retirement after 40 years in the Senate. And Ross Barnett, the segregationist Governor who only under the guns of federal troops...
With 26 percent of the vote counted in Mississippi, Mabus, the state's 39-year-old auditor, had 95,431, or 55 percent, compared with 78,392 or 45 percent for Reed, bidding to become the first GOP governor since Reconstruction...
Argues Georgia State Auditor G.W. Hogan: "The Government is imposing a tax on our income." Why is that allegedly unconstitutional? Says Frank Shafroth, federal relations director for the National League of Cities: "For 200 years the Federal Government didn't tax state and local governments or regulate their taxing, and the state didn't try to interfere with the Federal Government's power to tax." Shafroth's organization, as well as the Government Finance Officers Association, a national organization of public finance officials, is co-plaintiff in the Georgia suit. Fumes Mayor Young: "The Federal Government has been chipping away...
...same time, an internal auditor for Rockwell International, one of eight contractors involved in running the plant, charged that there had been 54 critical safety lapses over the past two years at the two plants that provided fuel for the reactor. The worst of these occurred on Sept. 29, when workmen moving plutonium liquid from one container to another failed to shut off some adjoining pipes -- an oversight that could have led to a chain reaction. The Government closed both plants in early October...