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When state Republican leaders urged her to run against Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt in 1978, she declined. Instead, she was retained as a judge in Maricopa County and, after only eleven months, was nominated to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Babbitt, who denies trying to sidetrack a potentially dangerous opponent. Says Babbitt: "I had to find the finest talent available to create confidence in our new merit system. Her intellectual ability and her judgment are astonishing...
...inspiring editor. Though Walt tended to get the credit for everything that came out of the studio, its style was really the creation of many artists, each one honing a speciality. Ward Kimball, Les Clark and Frank Thomas were particularly adept at complicated fast-moving action sequences, while Art Babbitt concentrated on large, slow, furry creatures like Goofy and the Big Bad Wolf. Grim Natwick, who created Betty Boop for another studio, was the early specialist in femininity. Eric Larson's skill with cute round little animals contrasted nicely with John Lounsbery's sleek menace-Cruella...
...forgetting their historically generous nature. "This country was built on immigrants," says Juan Soliz, coordinator for the Midwest Coalition in Defense of Immigration. "Some are trying to create hysteria to gain sympathizers, to have someone to blame for unemployment, inflation and high prices." Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt cautions that many questions surrounding illegal aliens remain unanswered. "For example, do they take jobs from American workers or do they perform tasks benefiting the American economy?" he asks. "No one knows. There ought to be deeper understanding of these issues before we take radical steps to barricade the border...
Concern about the workings and directions of the federal system has been climbing sharply and growing more articulate for the past few years, and not only among conservatives. Says one self-styled "committed liberal and unapologetic Democrat," Arizona's Governor Bruce Babbitt: "The federal system is in complete disarray." The Nation al Governors' Association last summer unanimously demanded that Congress and the President create a commission to diagnose the whole governmental apparatus and propose some sorting out of powers. An equally urgent plea for a realignment of powers came last summer from the Advisory C mission on Intergovernmental...
...nuclear czar appointed by the President. This recommendation set off a sharp debate. NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford contended that a single administrator would do nothing to improve the Government's regulation of nukes. Said he: "This is not a meat-inspection program." Replied Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, a Kemeny commission member: "The NRC is a headless agency that lacks the direction and vitality needed to police the nuclear power industry on a day-to-day basis...