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When Christopher ("Kit") Bond, a lawyer from Mexico, Mo., took office last year as his state's first Republican Governor since 1940, leaders of both parties anticipated stormy sessions between him and the heavily Democratic legislature. Bond, now 35, is not only the youngest U.S. Governor but also among the most inexperienced, having won elective office only once before, as state auditor. The salvos came early and fast at the reform-minded Governor, primarily over an issue that is one of the hottest facing state governments. The issue: reorganization of the morass of committees, agencies, boards and departments that...
...DiCara's main opposition at Saturday's Framingham caucus will come from an anti-Park Plaza contingent. DiCara stirred up this opposition when he voted February 5 against the recision of a $6.8 million bond issue for the $266 million development, which would include construction of a high rise hotel, apartments and office spaces beginning at Park Square and going towards the Combat Zone...
DiCara claims that he voted for the bond issue because he does not believe the council has the power to rescind a bond issue it had previously passed. "I refused to stand up and vote with my colleagues on issues that have no meaning," he said after the bond issue vote...
After his move to Atlanta, Morgan defended such celebrated legal challenges to the Vietnam War as Muhammed Ali's draft resistance and the seating of Julian Bond, the Georgia State Legislature's first black member since Reconstruction. The legislature had voted to reject Bond for his outspoken opposition to the war in his 1966 campaign...
JOHN MITCHELL, 60. Once the Administration's high priest of law-and-order, the former Attorney General and head of Nixon's re-election committee was undoubtedly Nixon's closest political confidant. The two men had known each other intimately ever since Mitchell, a seemingly imperturbable municipal-bond specialist, and Nixon were partners in a New York City law firm. In the Administration, Mitchell was an eager but unsuccessful prosecutor of antiwar extremists (the Chicago Seven, the Harrisburg Seven, Daniel Ellsberg). Mitchell's most celebrated