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Like Luder, Alfonsin has pledged to repeal a law passed by the junta last September that, in effect, pardoned the military for crimes committed in the "dirty war." If, however, the new President tries to prosecute the guilty, as relatives of the victims have demanded, he risks alienating the generals. If he makes good on his pledge to reform trade union elections, he will infuriate the Peronists. Despite their setbacks, the military and the party of Peron would make potent allies and could sabotage Alfonsin's administration...
...becoming more desperate. The law has been constructed so that the courts cannot question its provisions and an incoming civilian government cannot reverse the blanket amnesty it grants. Nonetheless, most election candidates rejected the law. Italo Luder of the Peronists and Raul Alfonsin of the Radicals confidently promised to repeal it, if elected. Said Argentine Novelist Ernesto Sabato: "I think that this is the only case in the history of international law in which the guilty dictate a law exonerating themselves...
...Ohio, a coalition incorporated as SET (Stop Excessive Taxation), proposed two amendments to the state constitution. One would repeal all taxes enacted since January 1983. The second would mandate that all tax bills require a three-fifths majority approval in the legislature. By Aug. 10, volunteers all over the state had collected more than 525,000 signatures for each proposal, about 200,000 beyond what is needed to get both measures on the November ballot...
...battle lines on the repeal are not traditional, nor do they follow party lines. Although SET is masterminded by the conservative wing of the Republican Party and has some major business support from the likes of J. Ray Topper, president of Anchor Hocking, and W.R. Timken Jr. of Timken Co., it is also supported by the rank-and-file members of some labor unions. Leading the opposition is John Mahaney, the Republican president of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, who counts the Ohio Education Association and the state AFL-CIO on his side and who hopes to raise...
...Repeal Cheerleader Topper denies that Governor Celeste is the hidden issue. But in Michigan Blanchard is clearly a target of the antitax movement. It started when John Lauve, a GM engineer, sent "the shirt off his back" to the statehouse in Lansing last March to protest the 38% tax increase. His gesture inspired other Michigan voters, and soon a "Recall Blanchard" movement was launched. Within weeks, petitions were circulating across the state to gather the 760,000 signatures necessary to call a special election. Although Lauve and his followers missed the mark, they did get 522,000 names during...