Word: politicians
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There are other cracks in the supposedly unified black front. Mervyn Dymally, a state senator from Los Angeles who is the most powerful black politician in the state, has served notice that California's elected blacks do not want to be bound by a national black strategy, regardless of who devises it. In addition, last month's state and local elections revealed that blacks do not necessarily vote as a bloc. Stokes' hand-picked successor in Cleveland was defeated, as were 233 of the 284 blacks who ran for office in Mississippi. Moreover, black voter turnout...
...Foreign Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto was appointed his deputy, which means that he will probably have the lion's share of the power. That may come sooner than expected. There were reports last week that Yahya's fall from power may be imminent. Bhutto is a contentious, pro-Chinese politician who was instrumental in persuading Yahya in effect to set aside the results of the election and to keep Mujib from becoming Prime Minister of Pakistan...
...building with the help of a $406 million interest-free loan from China. Only one thing marred the festivities: a raid on Dar es Salaam by two mysterious planes that showered the capital with antigovernment leaflets. The airdrop was thought to have been organized by supporters of a renegade politician, Oscar Kambona, who has lived in exile in London since...
...successful appeal to the voters of Massachusetts has far transcended racial politics; some Bay State Democrats call him "the best politician in the state,'' without excepting Kennedy. Though Massachusetts has only a 3% black population, Brooke won his Senate seat in 1966 by beating former Governor Endicott Peabody by 438,-712 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast...
...meantime, Illinois politicians have been making at least perfunctory efforts to clean up their own house. Ethics legislation that would require public disclosure of income by officeholders, which failed to pass in the last General Assembly session, is expected to be re-introduced next month. And there is fresh pressure on racing associations to abide strictly by a regulation requiring them to list all stockholders, including their nominees. None of this would have pleased Paul ("Shoebox") Powell, who used to tell colleagues: "There's only one thing worse than a defeated politician, and that's a broke politician...