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...part of their strategy, foes of both proposals have introduced two ballot initiatives of their own. Food growers and agribusinesses are pushing a measure called CAREFUL, which they say would achieve the same level of food safety as Big Green through less drastic means. Dubbed Big Brown by its critics, the proposal would outlaw the transport of food in vehicles also used to carry hazardous substances and set up a $25 million research program to develop alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind...
Chapman's win amounted to a binding referendum on the future course of America's largest Protestant body, since the anti-Fundamentalists have now lost all hope of turning the tide. When computers had counted the ballot cards, editor Jack U. Harwell of the moderate monthly SBC Today remarked that "the holy war is over. The Fundamentalists have won. We're fixing to enter the darkest period in our history." But Chapman believes the Bible battle has been settled once and for all, and that the S.B.C. "will become an explosive force for Christ around the world...
WORLD: Allah wins at the ballot...
...through another ballot initiative, Proposition 13, that Californians slashed property taxes 57% in 1978; one year later, they approved a no less important cap on state spending. In the decade that followed, nearly 20 other states adopted similar measures, and Ronald Reagan and George Bush rode the antitax sentiment into the White House...
Evidence of antitax sentiment is still widespread, and not just in California. In Illinois a group of irate taxpayers is promoting a ballot initiative that would require tax increases to be approved by three-fifths of the state legislature instead of a simple majority. Earlier this year more than 1,000 property-tax protesters stormed the office of Kansas Governor Mike Hayden. Connecticut's Governor William O'Neill decided against running for a third term this fall partly because his poll numbers dropped sharply after he threw his support behind higher taxes...