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...year would spell the end of their influence. Led by the Christian Coalition, the organization that rose from the debris of Pat Robertson's failed presidential bid in 1988, the religious right kept up its building process at the local level, jamming G.O.P. committee meetings and state caucuses. The grass-roots effort has paid off in control over the party apparatus in Texas, Virginia, Oregon, Iowa and South Carolina, as well as significant influence in perhaps a dozen other states...
That fear is why anonymous calls threatening to "slit your throats and watch your faggot blood run in the street" drove Jon Greaves to drop a grass- roots campaign last year against an antigay resolution adopted in Cobb County, Georgia, a prosperous and fast-growing Atlanta suburb. He and his lover moved instead to Atlanta, or Hotlanta, as its large and lively gay community likes to call it. "It wasn't a surrender," says Greaves, "just a retreat to safer ground." The resolution, which stands, declares homosexuality to be "incompatible with the standards to which this community subscribes." That apparently...
...player, Michael Stich, was soundly defeated by Bryan Shelton, who is ranked No. 120. This victory marked the second time in as many days that an outranked American has ousted a favored German, after Lori McNeil beat Steffi Graf yesterday in the first round. Taking advantage of the unpredictable grass courts and his opponent's bad temper, Shelton consistently outplayed and outclassed Stich. Shelton says that he was inspired by his fellow Yank's earlier win, and hopes that their achievements as African-American tennis players will encourage black youngsters to take up the sport...
...Centre Court, McNeil battled whipping winds and Graf's legendary forehand to quash the six-time Wimbledon champ. No. 2 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is now expected to take home the top prize, but some are still betting on 10-time winner Martina Navratilova, who is competing on the grass courts of Wimbledon for the final time...
...grass roots political battle over congressional-term limits may play itself out next year before the Supreme Court. The Justices agreed to hear arguments next October about whether Arkansas voters can restrict the number of years U.S. Representatives can serve. An Arkansas appeals court threw out the state constitutional amendment limiting politicians' terms in office, as have courts in Washington and Nebraska this year. Fifteen states enacted similar laws during the "vote-the-bums-out" fervor of the last half decade...