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After nine months in office, Watson has had partial victories (a long- overdue 6% pay raise for the department) and bitter setbacks (the city council rejected a group of her nominees for assistant chiefs -- two white males and a Hispanic woman). Alfred Calloway, a black councilman who opposed Watson's choices, stresses that little of the opposition was directed at her personally. "There's still an old Southern gentleman sort of thing here," he says. "They might be giving her more trouble if she weren't pregnant...
...passivity before a heavy-handed state. The Soviet government has returned more than 1,000 churches, but money for needed repairs is sorely lacking. Though disenchanted atheists are flocking to the old faith, there are too few trained priests to greet them. Father Alexander Borisov, a Moscow city councilman, says many lay churchgoers "have never even read the Gospels." Little wonder: scarce Bibles still sell in Moscow churches for 200 rubles (roughly one month...
...similar legislation across the U.S. But bicycle makers fear that helmet laws could hurt business. The Bicycle Manufacturers Association of America contends that the price of helmets -- typically $20 to $80 -- may cut into the sport's appeal by increasing its cost. The Maryland law was written by county councilman Charles Feaga, who was disturbed by the deaths of three local children in bicycling accidents. Insists Feaga: "We did not do this to harass children or adults. It's like passengers wearing seat belts. It's for their own good...
...Kroc, as a woman, finds herself even more maligned than other baseball owners in the current players' dispute -- the dugout being one of the last all-masculine bastions, even in San Diego -- and has been seeking to sell the team. As mayor, O'Connor gets most of the flak. Councilman Bob Filner, a fellow Democrat, accuses her of dodging systematic dialogue and instead "bullying people, one issue at a time." Some political regulars charge that she shuns partisan duties to concentrate on her "populist" appeal that one of them describes as "a mile wide and an inch deep...
...town quality of life. And she sticks up for women leaders as being more approachable than men, more service oriented and more concerned with their communities than with their personal ambitions. "When I took office three years ago, we had a mayor who'd been convicted. We had a councilman and a housing director under investigation. The city had gone through five mayors in four years," she says. "I was elected as a Democrat in a heavily Republican city with 60%. Mayor Mo must be doing something right...