Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time he did so on Sept. 2, his department had already hired about two-thirds of the required census coordinators through the civil service. Thus these nonpartisan supervisors will be able to select most of the 400,000 door- to-door enumerators at up to $8 an hour. Republicans are livid. Complained Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber: "Patronage is the lifeblood of politics in many congressional districts. To have this slip by us for bureaucratic reasons is just infuriating...
...classic battle between old and new is the one shaping up in Detroit. Last week four-term Mayor Coleman Young, 71, finished first in the city's nonpartisan primary in a campaign in which opponents hammered at Detroit's drug and crime problems. (The mayor's image was also tarnished when paternity tests forced him to acknowledge having fathered a child out of wedlock six years ago.) If Young is getting on in years, it has not cramped his boisterous style. At a victory rally last week, he urged his jubilant supporters to "go home, get some rest and come...
Skeptics note that, unlike campaigning for abortion rights or fringe political causes, environmental activism offers no career risk. "It's a nonpartisan issue," says Heal the Bay co-chair Ellen Gilbert. "What's the other side -- a dirty ocean?" Others suspect that the glamour do-gooders will lose interest or be unable to give up gas-guzzling cars and private planes. Bonnie Reiss, executive director of ECO, disagrees: "This is a people's movement, and we're beginning with the wealthy and privileged people of Hollywood...
...past decade Marxist history has lost its sway as many French intellectuals grew disillusioned with East bloc totalitarianism. A revisionist school, influenced by nonpartisan British and American scholars, presents a more complex picture of the revolution: nobles seeking to weaken royal power played a driving role in the rebellion, for example; few peasants suffered under a feudal yoke. In the U.S. a much heralded new work by Harvard University's Simon Schama, called Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, depicts the ancien regime in a positive light -- not too differently from France's current best seller La Revolution...
David Duke claims to have abdicated the title of imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Now he wants a new one: Louisiana state legislator. Last month Duke, 38, finished first with 33% of the vote in a nonpartisan election for representative from Metairie, a white suburb of New Orleans. In a runoff this week he faces runner-up John Treen, 63, a local builder and the brother of former Governor David Treen. Duke denies he is a racist and says coyly that he supports "civil rights for all people." Duke, who says he heads an outfit...