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...city that used to be a citadel of New Dealish plenty, today's rising taxes and costs and reduced municipal services make for an unusual campaign. It has become politic to be probusiness. Though Abe Beame insists that "we've weathered the storm," his own Temporary Commission on City Finances reported last month that the city is still in peril. The commission urged greater austerity and more enticing tax reductions for business, and told the city it must invest whatever funds it can spare in economic development rather than traditional services...
Genteel. The Texas Democratic Party long ago split into two bitterly feuding camps. Yarborough, 66, relies on a New Dealish grass-roots coalition of labor, liberals, East Texas blue-collar workers, blacks and Mexican Americans. This formula has kept him in the Senate for 13 years. Son of an East Texas farmer, the rural-oriented Yarborough is folksy and stubborn. Probably the South's most liberal Senator, he is a pariah among the state's conservative oil, banking and commercial interests. Recently he infuriated some of his backers by voting against the Supreme Court nomination of a Southerner...
...effort to keep society from exploding. Gone is the idea that a big power can safely fight a limited war against a small power. Instead, North Viet Nam forced the U.S. to spend $85 billion and lose moral prestige in much of the world. At home, vast New Dealish programs have failed to cure poverty; civil rights legislation has left Negroes more frustrated than ever. For all the U.S.'s faith in uni versal higher education, many of the nation's brightest youths have rebelled against mass schooling that seems to ignore their burning questions: What...
...graduates pressured older politicians to step aside, and typically inflated assorted tribal claims to clothe their ambitions. Seizing the tribal issues, President Kenneth Kaunda created a unifying nationalist ideology?a supratribal humanism based on what he called the old tribal concept of "a mutual aid society." With that New Dealish theme, Kaunda remains firmly in power...
Mistake-on-the-Lake. His record suggests a bizarre combination of New Dealish liberalism and honest-cop abrasiveness. While Richard Hatcher says his personal hero is John Kennedy, Carl Stokes mentions crusty old Harold Ickes, Interior Secretary under F.D.R. One of Stokes's favorite books is Who Governs? by Robert Dahl, which describes the political assimilation of European immigrants in New Haven. Although Dahl was not primarily concerned with Negroes, Stokes associates the Negroes' evolution with that of other minority groups. "If the ethnic pulled himself up a bit with the help of the rope," wrote Dahl...