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...before the Bundestag's Defense Committee to explain, Worner admitted his decision to retire Kiessling had been influenced by a second factor: concern over "personal differences" between the German general and NATO'S supreme commander, U.S. General Bernard Rogers. Angered, Bonn's legislators launched an extensive nonpartisan investigation...
Flynn's victory had been predicted after he narrowly finished first among eight candidates in last month's nonpartisan primary. King, a former state legislator, ran a strong second in the elimination heat, but the arithmetic was against him in the two-way general election. Noting that blacks constitute only 20% of Boston's electorate, Political Pollster Thomas Kiley said flatly, "A black candidate cannot achieve more than 40% of the vote in this city...
...many stress, that inspiration has remained nonpartisan. Allison notes that the Reagan Administration has more Harvard affiliates in top positions than Kennedy did. That includes three K-School professors--Christopher C. DeMuth '68, who is working on regulatory reform. Roger Porter, who serves in economic policymaking, and presidential assistant Richard G. Darman...
...race, both running on a promise to shift money and urban-planning energies away from glamorous downtown and harbor-front development toward rebuilding Boston's neglected working-class neighborhoods. Their populist appeals proved so evenly matched, in fact, that when voters in last week's nonpartisan primary picked them as the two mayoral finalists out of an eight-candidate field, Melvin King got just 98 more votes (out of a record 165,688 cast) than City Councilman Raymond Flynn. So will the general election, four weeks from now, be a blah choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Only...
...Treasurer Ann Richards. "Whether it actually comes to fruition or not, it serves another purpose." That purpose: to build women's voting strength and give voice to women's issues. Already, about 40 women's rights organizations, representing 15 million women, are engaged in a national nonpartisan voter-registration drive bearing the Slogan IT'S A MAN'S WORLD UNLESS WOMEN VOTE...