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There were other upsets in Democratic senatorial primaries last week. One of the most spectacular came in Michigan, where the party was choosing a successor to retiring Michigan Democrat Philip A. Hart, 63, the stalwart liberal who is gravely ill with lymphatic cancer. Maverick Congressman Donald Riegle, 38, ignored the wishes of the kingmaking United Auto Workers and challenged favored State Secretary Richard Austin, 63, for the nomination. Riegle won, 44% to 29% A former Republican Congressman whose liberal policies earned him a place on Richard Nixon's enemies list, Riegle switched to the Democrats in 1973 and this...
...Blue Line does have the most romantically named station--Wonderland--and its cars are ancient, but somehow winning. After Maverick, it's all elevated, and there's a Queens-like ride along the beach. Ride the Blue Line on a hot day and be sure to stop off at Revere Beach, the best thing on the coast this side of Coney Island. The Blue Line's Government Center station is the most avant garde in town, having been decked out in Bicentennial garb for about two years before everything else in Boston...
Despite Miki's image as an honest political maverick, most Japanese cynically believe the question of his tenure as Premier will eventually be decided in the usual L.D.P. manner-by a backroom bargain. In large measure, this is because the party is a diverse umbrella organization including everything from right-wing nationalists to non-Marxist leftists; among its 274 members in the Diet are businessmen dabbling in politics, full-time politicians, a sprinkling of former civil servants and even entertainers. The L.D.P. has roughly half a dozen major factions, and like feudal fiefdoms of old, they are constantly forming...
...Gramm drew blood, no doubt helping Alan Steelman, the Republican Congressman from Dallas who will oppose Bentsen in November. Many conservatives in the GOP are unhappy that Steelman was nominated, viewing him as a maverick with uncomfortably liberal tendencies. One Texas Republican political consultant asked me not long ago, "How the hell can Steelman come out for gay rights, the ERA, and legalized abortion, all in the same speech?" But Steelman is consistently on the Right in matters of government spending and management of the economy--he gets high marks from conservative groups who rate members of Congress--and Gramm...
...ATTACK ON A black freshman, Dennis J. Henderson '79, by seven white youths in the Maverick Square MBTA station last week, who chased Henderson out of the station, beating him and shouting racial epithets, brings home the problem of racist violence in the city of Boston. Like other incidents in Boston during recent weeks, the attack on Henderson was unprovoked; and as during other unwarranted attacks, no one present came to the aid of the victim...