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Atop all that travail, Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party is enduring one of its most serious political challenges in 56 years. The De la Madrid administration, which came to office in 1982 amid promises of "moral renovation," is facing a popular backlash, particularly in the north, where riots against alleged P.R.I. election fraud have sputtered for weeks. Increasingly, Mexican ire is directed at a P.R.I. legacy of corruption, graft and lawlessness that De la Madrid's new broom has been unable to sweep away. Says Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University...
...refer to themselves as "The White Tribe." Even the token reforms undertaken by the Botha government have drawn vehement criticism within the Nationalist government and have prompted a rightward shift in much of the Afrolaamer electorate. Far from warming to reforms in apartheid, white South Africa threatens a violent backlash...
...disclosures last week triggered a community backlash against the bank. The city council of Medford voted to withdraw $64,000 in deposits from First National, and Boston officials began thinking about doing likewise with the $44 million in its accounts. For First National's management it was a public relations nightmare. "They're stunned," said one of the bank's consultants. "They are used to being pillars of the community...
...digital models available at the local pharmacy. "You can get a wafer-thin watch that keeps perfect time for $20 at a dime store," scoffs Sig Shonholtz, who runs the Second Time Around Watch Co. in Los Angeles. "So what else is there? The only thing left is backlash. It's humanizing to have something quirky and mechanical on your wrist...
...only be served if they are properly understood as the concerns of all. Blacks rejected President Reagan almost unanimously, but were still powerless to block the re-election of a man whose policies have been shown to weigh most heavily on minorities and the poor. Bouyed by a white backlash against affirmative action, this Administration has successfully stymied, or even reversed, previous efforts toward nondiscriminatory hiring practices. Blacks cannot hope to reverse these trends without white support, but neither can whites hope to enjoy a peaceful society if they ignore the alienation and violence bred by such injustices. King never...