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Nevertheless, they come about as close as possible to collective fulfillment of the American dream. More than half report incomes exceeding $50,000 annually, 13.8 per cent earn more than $100,000. The class reflects current trends in upper middle class living. Jogging, tennis and squash are the favorite sports, but apparently they are not favored with quite enough dedication: 41 per cent said they were overweight by more than five pounds. The class clearly believes in hard work, with 57 per cent putting in more than 50 hours per week--nearly 40 per cent never wish to retire...
...didn't win the New Hampshire primary in 1972, nor did Eugene McCarthy in 1968, but they pulled down a higher percentage "than expected," and "won," at least in the eyes of the media. In Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, reporters let the Ian Smith regime do the predicting--they said 60 per cent turnout would be an endorsement of the process, and sure enough, when the turnout broke 60, bang! instant international legitimacy. Instant legitimacy, that is, in the eyes of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives in England, not to mention a majority of the U.S. Senate...
...reality in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, however, is something else again. Over 80 per cent of the country was and still is under martial law. Those escorts were at least as coercive as anything the Patriotic Front did to disrupt the elections. And beyond any coercion, the voting itself was form without content. Blacks did not get to vote on the constitution under which Biship Muzorewa will be taking power--that was drawn up by Ian Smith's regime and passed on by just the whites (5 per cent of the population). That constitution leaves control of the military, judiciary, and police...
...that the action of 64 per cent of the eligible voters of Rhodesia (who went to the polls to choose a black-majority government) supports continued white domination on Rhodesia is wrong. The election of Bishop Abel Muzorewa--who is no puppet--if anything indicates a decline in that domination. Rhodesia, as Mr. Koblitz says, is a country torn by war, but it appears that the recent elections bear the possibility for something missing for six years since the conflict began: peace. In an international view, the problem has been how to achieve a form of majority rule whose legitimacy...
...Conservatives took only 14 per cent of the Popular vote in Quebec. In the 1974 federal election the PC garnered 21 per cent...