Word: runoff
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Despite their past affection for Mayor Frank Jordan, San Francisco voters seem poised to turn him out of office. Polls show Willie Brown, the flamboyant former speaker of the California Assembly, leading by twenty points heading into Tuesday's runoff mayoral election. San Francisco bureau chief David Jackson notes that while Jordan managed during his first four years to balance the budget and clean up the streets as promised, Brown has captured the political soul of the city. "Willie Brown appeals to the very liberal element that dominates San Francisco politics," Jackson says. "He's using the same skills...
...barely five years later, ex-communists have returned to power across much of Eastern Europe, and last week the mighty Walesa himself fell victim to the comrades' comeback. Aleksander Kwasniewski, 41, a minister in the last communist Polish government, defeated the old Solidarity war-horse in a runoff presidential election. Kwasniewski's Social Democratic Party, created from the remnants of communism in 1990, already leads a governing coalition in the parliament, and the President-elect will play a vital role in the creation of a constitution to guide Poland into the next century. "He is the Moses of the Polish...
Voters in Gary, Indiana, where nearly 90% of the residents are black, elected Democrat Scott King their first white mayor in 28 years. In San Francisco, Willie Brown, California's flamboyant former state-assembly speaker, faces a Dec. 12 runoff against decidedly unflamboyant incumbent Frank Jordan (who weirdly sought to liven up his image shortly before the election by showering in the nude with two local disc jockeys). In Baltimore and Philadelphia, no surprises: Democratic incumbents Kurt Schmoke and Edward Rendell won easily...
Guatemalans are bracing for a January 7 runoff election after frontrunner Alvaro Arzu, a popular reform-minded industrialist, fell short of the 50 percent majority he needs to win. His opponent is Republican Front leader Alfonso Portillo, the hand-picked choice of former dictator Efrain Rios. "This election is being closely watched by the international community, which fears that a Portillo victory would mean a serious setback for democracy," TIME's Mike Leffert reports from Guatemala City. "Business is also worried that a Portillo win could threaten privatization projects and guarantees for property rights." Weary of their country...
Current Republican legislation will curtail regulatory tyranny. Not only will the EPA's plans to make water cleaner be halted, but the EPA will be forbidden from enforcing current regulations regarding storm water runoff, sewage overflow and toxic dumping. Hundreds of millions of dollars that the EPA provides to assist states in paying for water and sewage treatment plants will be eliminated. The EPA's influence in curbing radon in drinking water and cancer-causing substances in food will be eviscerated. Guidelines and programs to decrease air pollution will be scrapped or reduced in funding. Even the ban on chlorofluorocarbons...