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Jackson is in fact such a bugbear to many whites that he is sometimes a political liability. After the celebration of Harold Washington's primary victory in Chicago, at which Jackson planted himself on the podium and led an impolitic chant of "We want it all!", he was shooed away from the general election
...that is if he can get the necessary support from the city council. For all his talk of conciliation, the mayor-elect quickly served notice that he concerns of his black constituents would not be neglected. He announced plans to push for he construction of low-income housing, a bugbear in the city's white neighborhoods...
Mark S. Granovetter, assistant professor of Sociology and head tutor in the department, predicts that tutors' statements about students are "going to be pretty bland." The ultimate bugbear here, head tutors say, is the student with "emotional problems," whose tutor will avoid aggravating the condition by not reporting it to the next tutor. That tutor, the story goes, then needs a semester just to find out what his predessor could have passed on in one confidential memo...
Draft girls? Why not? There are already 37,000 women volunteers serving in the U.S. armed forces, including more than 800 in Viet Nam. Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey, 74, crusty bugbear of millions of draft-age males, recalls an attempt to draft nurses during World War II that was stymied by Congress. Anthropologist Margaret Mead favors conscription of all youth for public service and sees no reason why girls should be exempt. The present draft, she complains, "sets girls and young women apart as if they did not exist...
...ought to adjust to a role as a small power, should be more selective in its peace-keeping missions for the U.N., should seek better relations with both Latin America and, because of its bicultural policy at home, with the French-speaking states. As for U.S. investment, a perennial bugbear, Trudeau approves of it but favors keeping laws that prevent foreign subsidiaries from dominating key industries...