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...Bush made his ill-starred trip to Tokyo to wrest trade concessions from the Japanese and a shrill chorus shouting "Buy America" began to drown out all others on the L.A. commission. "No loyal American would hand over that contract to the Japanese," said Nate Holden, an L.A. city councilor. Last week the commission yanked the contract back from Sumitomo in a bald effort to save American jobs, and in a move almost certain to complicate the situation, Los Angeles tentatively decided to get into the rail-car manufacturing business itself, with an option to construct a $49 million factory...
...proposed by city councilor Dorothy Mae Taylor, who is black, will not affect Mardi Gras until 1993, leaving the council committees time to review, and possibly revise, the penalties. The legislation "could kill Mardi Gras," warns Beau Bassich, a member of the Mardi Gras Coordinating Committee. Says Loyola professor Edward Renwick: "To bring up such a divisive issue so shortly after this election seems to blow the coalition asunder. We're right back to where we started. Taylor is the Grinch who stole Mardi Gras...
...Everyone goes into the race trying to ID as many #1 votes as they can," says incumbent Councilor Jonathan S. Myers, who has been running "an intense door to door campaign" in order to identify votes...
...Perhaps we should offer you a vodka," city councilor Raymond Chapin quips to a reporter. In the next breath he grows serious, recalling how, when he first joined the party two decades ago, it sent its members to visit the Soviet Union, "telling us it was a workers' paradise. Today," he acknowledges, "that would make people laugh." Outside city hall, activist Gerard Kourland is selling L'Humanite, the party organ, and patiently explaining the difference between the Russian and French parties: "We officially gave up on the dictatorship of the proletariat in 1976. And even before then...
...Bobigny self-interest has replaced ideology, and the Communists have built their political machine on a hair-trigger response to the grass roots. "They blanket the city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show...