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...leadership of its first President, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana gained independence from Britain in 1957. But poor planning and extravagant government spending soon undermined the economy, while incompetent officials and pervasive corruption eroded Nkrumah's popular support. In 1966 he was overthrown in a widely popular military coup. That revolt set the pattern for the future; in the succeeding 17 years Ghana has endured five such coups...
More metaphor than mythology, the Goddess is vital to Graves' poetry and much more. "The political and social confusion of the last 3,000 years," he once told a visitor, "has been entirely due to man's revolt against woman as a priestess of the natural magic, and his defeat of wisdom by the use of intellect...
...What beat Clements," said Jim Francis, the loser's campaign manager, "was this revolt based on unemployment, Social Security and fear." Joblessness is at a high 8.3% in Texas. White also exploited popular antipathy toward Texas power companies, suggesting that as Governor he would make the state's utility regulatory agency "a watchdog, not a lapdog." Said Don Ring, Clements' media consultant: "Texas politics snapped back to party lines just like a rubber band around a batch of Social Security checks...
Unlike the spate of ballot measures in 1980, this year's proposals raised issues that were somewhat more liberal than conservative in intent. The trickle of tax-revolt measures that followed after Proposition 13 was approved in California in 1978 seems nearly to have dried up. Indeed, more than the election of a candidate, referendums and initiatives defined voter feeling on specific issues, and citizens were most vocal about nuclear arms, the quality of the environment and crime...
...Right agenda. Nonetheless, the New Right leadership last week saw no need to compromise. The Moral Majority's Ron Godwin vowed renewed efforts for school prayer and against abortion. And Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, searching for new motivating issues, called for an anti-elitist "new populist revolt." At a somber New Right election-night party, Viguerie declared, "If we win or lose, it's not our doing. God's will is going to be done. He's got His plan." Last week, at least, God's plan seemed to be a moderate one. -By Jane...