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Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic has endorsed ERA, and Republican Governor James Thompson called for ratification in his State of the State address this year, but many Illinois politicians regard the ERA issue as a political time bomb and have been reluctant to apply their political muscle on its behalf...
...local needs. This has become more of a problem since Califano took away the power of the ten regional directors and re-centralized it in Washington. Too few bureaucrats, HEW'S critics claim, are rewarded for initiative. Says Robert Mollica, who deals with federal-state relations for the Governor's office in Massachusetts: "Occasionally we will find a bureaucrat who is courageous enough to interpret the spirit behind the programs rather than carrying them out to the letter whether or not that makes sense...
Shaba's newly appointed military governor, Singa Boyenge Mosrmbry, tried to sound a positive note. "I am always an optimist," he said last week. "Next year the situation will be completely changed. The whites will be back by August or September." Perhaps so. But those who have remained are demanding a special payment of $1,000 a month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack...
DIED. James Browning Allen, 65, Alabama's junior Senator and a wily parliamentarian who recently helped lead Senate opposition to the Panama Canal treaties; of a heart attack; in Foley, Ala. After rising in state politics to become George Wallace's hand-picked Lieutenant Governor, Allen fought his way past other conservative Alabama Democrats to win a Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern...
Throughout the testimony, Melba Allen, immaculately coiffed in spit curls and a Grecian wiglet, sat impassively, toying with a ballpoint pen and whispering occasionally to her four lawyers. Only once did she break down, during a parade of 24 character witnesses, including old friends, her preacher and Governor George Wallace, who attested to her "good" reputation. Nonetheless, the jury needed only 45 minutes to find her guilty as charged. When sentenced next week, she faces up to 20 years in prison and $20,000 in fines...