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...anniversary march crossed the Pettus bridge, black and white Selma police officers and state troopers held back the automobile traffic. Blacks constitute 35% of the Selma police department and 45% of the fire department. Two of Selma's six present councilmen are black. A black woman, Jackie Walker, was elected tax collector last fall, becoming the first of her race to win a countywide election since Reconstruction. Walker died in an auto accident on Feb. 1. Selma's minority community is waiting to see if the white county commissioners will appoint another black to take her place...
...when feminism appropriates the moral arrogance of the New Right, it starts to become indistinguishable from its opposite. There is no small irony in the fact that the MacKinnon-Dworkin bill would not have made it to the Mayor's desk without the support of two-right-wing city councilmen who saw the ordinance merely as a means for cleaning up the neighborhoods. Feminism began as a crusade for the dignity of half our nation, but if feminists like Mackinnon and Dworkin continue to focus on the wrong issues, it may degenerate into an hysterical ideology of sexual righteousness...
Waitsburg does not get easily riled. The town has one policeman and virtually no crime. Only 13% of the voters went to the polls in the last election; all of the town's councilmen have run unopposed for office since 1965. The mayor never gets any unfavorable publicity; the only other Waitsburg Times staff reporter is his son. And his name is Loyal...
...powerless. In his first week on the job, Harold Washington lost control of the Chicago city council to a group of rebellious white council members who proceeded to divvy up key committee chairmanships and leave the mayor's supporters out in the cold. Washington fought the councilmen in court but lost. He still controls the city purse strings and can veto any action dealing with capital expenditures, but for the time being he is unable to put through any programs...
...coincidence, perhaps, that the most prominent Socialists seemed to be the least popular. Among government ministers, who often by custom hold jobs as mayors or councilmen in their own towns, eight won reelection, but five were defeated outright in the first round. Although the losers do not automatically forfeit their ministerial posts, they may be the first victims in a government reshuffle. Seven more faced embarrassing runoffs (held whenever the first round produces no clear-cut winner). Among them: Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who has ruled Marseille as a personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors...