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...This movement is natural," Washington said, "It's nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be ashamed about. It's inevitable, it's manifest, there's a historical imperative...
...even Jackson expects a black bid in 1984 to lead to the Oval Office, it makes a certain amount of tactical sense. Blacks have been trooping to voting booths in growing numbers, making them a potent factor in the choice of the next President. The new clout was manifest in the recent wins of Harold Washington in the Chicago mayoral race and W. Wilson Goode in the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary. These heady successes have spurred blacks, who vote Democratic 9 to 1 and routinely represent from 20% to 25% of the Democratic bloc in national elections, to demand more...
Indeed, the precise threat of lung cancer, which takes from 13 to 50 years to manifest itself, is poorly understood. Says Stan Neff, 53, who has worked at Asarco for 18 years: "I've lived around here all my life and I'm not concerned about any health hazards. It's a lot better than it was 50 years ago." But Darcy Wright, a Tacoma homemaker who lives a mile from the smelter, worries about raising her four-month-old son. Says she: "Somehow I'm going to have to provide him with a protected area...
...Alliance's last-ditch efforts to attract anti-Thatcher sentiment received a timely boost from Labor Leader Michael Foot's manifest ineptness on the stump, as well as from the growing disarray within the Labor Party. The leftist New Statesman abandoned its traditional support for Labor, urging its readers to vote for the Alliance in an effort to "stop Thatcherism in its tracks." Concluded the 70-year-old weekly: "The priority now must be to deny Mrs. Thatcher her goal of a working majority large enough for her to railroad through another five years of New Rightism...
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...