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...discontent that appeared in the off-year elections, not only in the cautious and sometimes contradictory voting but also in the low numbers of votes cast. "There is a mood of apprehension and anxiety, a fear of the unknown," says Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti. Boston Globe Columnist Jeremiah V. Murphy summed it up neatly when he wrote, "We should feel better than we actually do. But nobody knows...
...guerrillas, Smith and his cohorts are making sure that the white minority will hold many of the strings of power in the domestic settlement for transition to black rule. The provisional accord Smith signed this spring with three black moderates--Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole and Jeremiah Chirau--guarantees whites a 28-member bloc in the future parliament, enough seats to block any constitutional changes. An equally significant clause promises that whites will retain control of the national army, police force, and civil service for at least ten years. Blacks will get the vote on an unrestricted basis...
...white gloves, cane and jackknife--has become a stage favorite. The king of the underworld who's best friends with the chief of police strides through The Threepenny, Opera refusing to be judged. Women, of course, fall all over him, and he's married two (at least). Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, the "king of the beggars," a less familiar character, acts as Brecht's mouthpiece to deliver the show's straight-forward message: don't condemn how others earn their next meal until you're faced with missing one yourself. Working, begging, taking bribes, stealing--they blur together in Brecht...
...black leader will probably be Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, one of the three black members of Rhodesia's Executive Committee. The other two black members, Jeremiah Chirau and Bishop Abel Muzorewa, will come later. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, is expected to meet with them, government officials said...
...York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey won 52% of the vote in a contest with Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak and State Senator Jeremiah Bloom. Spending $1.5 million-ten times as much as either of his opponents-Carey veered sharply to the right during the campaign, emphasizing his efforts to restore fiscal solvency to New York City and his modest state tax cuts. Though playing up his slight stiffening of the juvenile crime laws, he remained firmly opposed to capital punishment. This is the issue that will be stressed by his G.O.P. adversary, Long Island State Assemblyman Perry Duryea...