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Black strength at the polls was manifest in the recent wins of Harold Washington in the Chicago mayoral race and W. Wilson Goode in the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary. It may also prove contagious. "When you get a triggering force like the Washington victory, you generate a great deal of dynamism in other cities," says Political Scientist Marguerite Ross Barnett of Columbia University. "It will have an enormous impact on national politics." The moral of these two races, adds Mary Coleman, a political science professor at Jackson State University, is that there is a new reluctance on the part...
...same reaction occurred in the meeting room of the Commission on Strategic Forces. Men like Henry Kissinger and Harold Brown, noted one participant, "were remarkably well behaved," sublimating their egos for the good of the group. They knew the stakes were larger than their own reputations. That report was the work of four former Secretaries of Defense, two former Secretaries of State and three former directors of the CIA. And their recommendations brought endorsements from three former Presidents. Would-be doubters were instantly humbled since virtually every top expert in strategic affairs had signed...
Though race was clearly a factor in the voting, the lines were not as sharply drawn as in Chicago. While Harold Washington won just a fraction of the white vote, Goode netted an impressive 23% of it. If Goode, 44, is elected in November, it would put blacks in charge of four of the nation's six largest cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit. But even cushioned by a 5-to-l Democratic superiority, Goode is no shoo-in. The G.O.P. is girding for a tough fight, hoping to take advantage of a fractured Democratic Party and regain...
...President's Commission on Strategic Forces, chaired by lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, was originally charged with finding a basing mode for the MX missile after Congress correctly rejected "dense pack." The Commission included such defense specialists as Alexander Haig and Harold Brown, and The New Republic calls their product "one of the most serious and sophisticated official documents of the nuclear era." The members of the Commission made three basic recommendations. Discard the notion of U.S. strategic inferiority by considering simultaneously bombers, missiles and submarines, deploy 100 MXs, each with 10 warheads, in hardened Minuteman silos, and for the future...
Nobody expected an effectless transition, but nobody quite expected the farce now being played in Chicago. After only two weeks into Harold Washington's four-year term as Chicago's first black mayor, the city government was stalemated. When Washington, a Democrat elected despite opposition from his party's old guard, threatened to make good on his inaugural promise-"Business as usual will not be accepted by the people"-the city's Democratic political Establishment came together in a new, sometimes unseemly vigor, determined to outmaneuver and outbellow the antimachine mayor. To paraphrase the 1955 words...