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This year's local elections are crucial. For the first time since the early 1960s, three of the City Council incumbents have decided not to run for re-election. Although each of the three--Saundra Graham, David E. Sullivan and Alfred E. Vellucci--represent viewpoints that often differ dramatically in the city, they have all generally aligned themselves with the city's "progressives." And in recent years, they have played a crucial role in maintaining the five-member council majority that supports rent control...
...legal battle against sex discrimination has often pitted the backers of women's rights against paternalistic rules that protect -- and bar -- women from the workplace. The fight appears to have taken a new turn as a result of a major federal decision from the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
Democratic resolve was bolstered by the fact that the legislation will be immensely popular with working mothers, who spend an average of $3,000 a year per child for care that is often of uncertain quality. Poor women are especially hard pressed. A report by the Census Bureau estimates that mothers with annual incomes of less than $15,000 paid an average of 18% of their income for child care. Declared Texas Democratic Congressman Michael Andrews: "We have standards for prisons, roads and airports. We owe as much to our children...
...many of Africa's poachers operate with the cold precision of a crack military unit. They are well armed and organized into gangs of up to ten men. Their weapons, often AK-47 assault rifles, can pepper a herd with 30 rounds in less than five seconds. Frequently they are ex-army men. When they run into antipoaching units, they respond as trained soldiers would, withdrawing and firing, then scattering and rendezvousing hours or days later at prearranged sites. In Angola rebels help finance military operations with ivory. Among the larger bands of poachers, some men are designated as cooks...
...absorption, then this is his concluding unscientific postscript on the besetting sin of the '80s, greed. At times the joints in the movie's carpentry are strained, at times the mood swings jarring. But they stir us from our comfortable stupor and vivify a true, moral, always acute and often hilarious meditation on the psychological economy of the Reagan years...