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...Democrat who ran as an independent with support from the ethnic wards, beat Democratic candidate Thomas Foerster, a more conventional liberal. It was the third successive mayoralty defeat for the once mighty Pittsburgh machine. In Cleveland, scrappy Dennis Kucinich, 31, a former three-term city councilman, edged out Edward Feighan, 30, the candidate of the regular Democratic organization, and promised a thorough housecleaning at city hall. In Buffalo, State Senator James Griffin, who had lost the Democratic primary for mayor, bolted the party and joined the Conservatives. He won the election with 42% of the vote...
...months. This week representatives of organized labor will appear before the committee to argue against the bills. Another joint Senate-House bill aimed at correcting some of the law's more obvious flaws will be introduced this week by Senator Edward Kennedy and Ohio Congressman Michael A. Feighan...
...preference guides. The quota has been oversubscribed, and more than half the applicants are domestics and other unskilled workers. One result: Canadian firms and U.S. companies doing business in Canada can no longer transfer personnel to the U.S. for training or new assignments without a long wait. The Kennedy-Feighan bill would create a preference system favoring those with skills and management ability. This would put a tight limit on domestics and doubtless raise a howl from housewives already complaining about the overly bureaucratic difficulties of importing live-in maids...
...will be given to a favorite Johnson bill-revising immigration to give priority to highly skilled people rather than fixing quotas arbitrarily for each country. This bill may hit a snag in the House, for the immigration subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee is chaired by testy Ohio Democrat Michael Feighan, who is as close to an isolationist as there is in today's Congress...
Last week Editor Seltzer rejoiced: Feighan got a sizable majority over noisy Sweeney, who cried: "It is a difficult assignment to try to beat a combination of newspapers, Communists and misguided persons...