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...quite grounds for declaring a counterrevolution. Yet there are other signs that the constraints imposed by Proposition 13 have begun to chafe. A position paper compiled by assemblyman Tom Hayden points out that California, once a leader of progressive government, has dropped to near last place among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in measures of living quality, including per capita spending on schools, classroom size and housing affordability...
...their family's health, who are giving the nation's environmental movement its daily, stubborn edge. In Kansas two years ago, a housewife who lived near Wichita's Vulcan Chemical plant and whose family had been beset with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken children to an environmental hearing in Baton Rouge, and protesters of a Conoco Inc. refinery in Ponca City, Okla., set up a tent city on state capitol grounds in 1988. Two weeks...
...voter initiative, which has a good chance of passage, is sponsored by an alliance of environmental groups headed by Democrat Tom Hayden, the 1960s radical leader who mellowed into a mainstream liberal, married actress Jane Fonda -- from whom he was recently estranged -- and has served eight years in the California state assembly. For Hayden, 50, the measure could be a ticket to political stardom, especially if he gets himself elected the state's first environmental czar...
...Long Island clothing manufacturer and a graduate of Columbia Business School, Cohen had planned to enter the family business but changed his mind when his father offered him only half the going rate for M.B.A.s, then $12,000 a year. Eventually Cohen joined a brokerage firm named CWBL- Hayden, Stone, one of the forerunners of Shearson. By 1983, Cohen had been named chief executive of Shearson, making him, at 36, the youngest head of a major Wall Street firm...
LIFE AFTER THE SPLIT. Jane Fonda's glamour was never enough to catapult Tom Hayden out of the California assembly. Now Hayden may run for the state's top eco-watchdog post, which he helped create. High-profile landfill work could be a prelude to a 1992 bid for Alan Cranston's Senate seat...