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...million citizens who were eligible to vote in 1980 but did not, 75 per cent of these were poor; the numbers are a powerful argument for voter registration in the polarized age of Reagan. A coalition would emerge of constituencies that have not been listened to in the White House or the meeting rooms of the Democratic Party--Blacks. Latinos, the poor, women, progressive labor, peace groups, community groups, gays and lesbians. Led and spurred on by a Presidential candidate, these groups could form local and national coalitions, effectively creating a political apparatus not tied to the electoral process, able...
...with which the party has isolated itself from the mass of low- and moderate-income citizens. ACORN, a national organization of the poor, protested at the 1980 Democratic National Convention for a quota of one-third of delegates to be low- and moderate-income, similar to the 50 per cent quota for women. A commission headed by Black activist and Congressman Michey Leland recommended the idea to the Democratic National Committee, which rejected it in favor of another proposal that about one-third of delegates be party officials--effectively closing off the party instead of opening...
...decided in the courts. This year's gubernatorial election involves the current Democratic Lt. Gov. Martha Layne Collins; Jim Bunning, a Republican state legislator and former baseball pitcher; and "Doc" Stumbo, a Democrat who is running as an independent. Current polls show Collins preferred by 60 per cent of those queried...
Argeros declined to say how many of the shoplifters caught are Harvard students. "I'll say this throughout all of society6," he said, adding. "One big factor is that the person who drops a 20-cent pen in his pocket and walks out doesn't think he's done anything significant. Multiply that by 1000 and you cut into profits...
...last spring for the Class of 1986 included one big surprise. In contrast to acceptance figures--which showed that students of all minority groups had been accepted in numbers comparable to those of previous years--only 97 Black students had actually decided to come to Harvard a 23 per cent drop The figures were particularly disturbing by contrast with those for other minority groups--all of which yielded totals the same as or slightly higher than in past years and with Yale and Princeton, neither of which experienced such a drop...