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While denouncing taxes with reborn evangelical fervor, Brown has skillfully muted the effects of Proposition 13 by distributing an accumulated revenue surplus of $4 billion to communities deprived of property tax revenues. He also signed a bill in August cutting personal income taxes by $1 billion next year, a move that will save each taxpaying family an average of $150. For this behavior, Brown has not won the endorsement but certainly the blessing of the most popular figure in the state, Howard Jarvis, author of Proposition 13. Jarvis originally appeared in a TV ad praising Younger for successfully opposing...
...original Dodger-Giant rivalry goes back a lifetime, to New York City, the shadow of Coogan's Bluff and the baseball shades that still haunt Flatbush Avenue. But the reborn Giants seem to be rekindling their old rivalry with the Dodgers. They are a hungry, young team with a scrambling, come-from-behind style that disarms fans and ages managers unmercifully. So far this year the Giants have gone into extra innings 16 times and have won 34 of their 70 victories by a single...
...contrast, the Wafd Party, which was reborn only three months ago, has been restrained in criticizing Sadat. But during a hotly contested by-election campaign in Alexandria this month, Wafd Leader Fuad Serageddin spoke for three hours as thousands cheered, giving the impression that he would soon mount a serious challenge to the regime. It was the-Wafd that led Egypt's struggle for independence from the British after World War I and often clashed with Farouk in attempting to limit the powers of the monarchy. After Nasser came to power in 1952, the Wafd was banned, along with...
...discrepancy between the widely held view of the present student generation as apathetic and apolitical and the wide support the question of divestiture from South Africa is receiving. If only out of simple curiosity, one might have expected Bok to stop and inquire about the source of his students' reborn moral concern...
...June 26, 1975, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the imperious daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, imposed a "state of emergency," curtailed civil liberties and imprisoned tens of thousands of people, including hundreds of her political opponents. But if Indian democracy had been destroyed in a single night, it was miraculously reborn only 21 months later when Mrs. Gandhi and her Congress Party were overwhelmingly defeated at the polls...