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...This election marks an end to an era of discrimination," declared a jubilant Gloria Molina, who last week became the first woman ever voted to a post on the Los Angeles County board of supervisors -- and its first Hispanic member since 1875. Molina, 42, the outspoken daughter of a Mexican immigrant laborer, defeated state senator Art Torres, 44, with 55% of the vote in a new district created last year by a federal court to rectify discrimination against Hispanics. The five-member board, with an annual budget of more than $10 billion, presides over the nation's most populous county...
...some still see Feldstein as tied to the Reagan administration. And although observers say his conservative politics will not hurt his candidacy, it has at least raised eyebrows among some students and faculty members. Although Feldstein's policy proposals are far from chapter and verse Reaganomics, he is an outspoken critic of social welfare programs...
Although Heimert in the past has been outspoken about his views on College life, he said in an interview last week that he won't discuss these opinions until he's had time to think through ideas that have been "muddled" by the emotional decision to step down...
Since Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait last August, much of the Arab world at the grass-roots level has divided into supporters and opponents of Iraq. But by far the most outspoken critic of Saddam has been Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian President has backed his rhetoric with muscle by contributing 38,500 troops to the allied coalition. What is surprising is that, contrary to some reports, most of Mubarak's 56 million countrymen support his stance on the war and have not fallen sway to Saddam's attempts to turn the conflict into a battle of Arab vs. West. Ordinary Egyptians...
...move was initiated by Finance Minister and C.D.R. mentor Vaclav Klaus, who is overseeing the transition from a state-run economy to the free market. In October the outspoken Klaus won an upset victory as Forum chairman over Havel's chosen candidate. Many members of the loosely aligned Liberal Club are longtime associates of Havel's and opposed Klaus in that vote. "We have decided on a divorce, Czech-style," Klaus said, "between a majority that elected me ((chairman)) and a minority view...