Word: local
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...history, and particularly in recent times. Between 1960 and 1976, the chance of being the victim of a major violent crime nearly tripled. Over three in every 100 Americans will be a victim this year. The elderly, with good reason, would rather go hungry than go out to the local Finast at night...
...general, candidates seemed to win on the basis of local issues and services they had or had not provided. For all the talk of an anti-incumbent year, not too many were turned out of office. Most Representatives who left Congress quit of their own accord. Of 377 incumbents running for re-election to the House, only 19 lost their seats...
...G.O.P. breakthroughs were mostly individual. As in the rest of the country, elections in the South did not generally turn on party lines or the President's popularity. Perhaps because local taxes tend to be lower in the South, there were also fewer manifestations of the tax-cut issue. In fact there were few issues at all: attention seemed to focus on such trivial things as, in Texas, a spurned handshake (Senator Tower's public rebuff to Democrat Robert Krueger) and, in Virginia, a famous wife...
Homosexuals won key ballot victories in two Western states. Californians followed the advice of civil liberties groups and conservatives and rejected Proposition 6, which would have enabled local school boards to fire teachers who are gay or who advocate homosexuality. Said Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley: "It was a measure against not just the rights of gay teachers but the civil rights of us all." In Seattle, voters retained a law that bars landlords and employers from discriminating against homosexuals. But in Florida, Miami-area voters refused to endorse a gay rights bill...
...everyone got off, however. Congressman John McFall, reprimanded with his two California colleagues for taking Tongsun Park's gifts, lost. So did Philadelphia Congressman Joshua Eilberg, indicted for taking legal fees to help secure federal funds for a local hospital. Former Senator and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney of Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude...