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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...
...vote could be an anticlimax. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the votes, a runoff between the two front runners will be held Dec. 12. Most analysts say Jordan has a better chance to survive the first election than a second, in which he would face the combined opposition of those who voted for Brown and Achtenberg. It is still not fashionable in this liberal, pro-union city to have a mayor who rousts vagrants from downtown, criticizes union rules and appeals to Big Business to stay in town and create jobs. Says Jordan: "I've been...
...white democrats run to the Republicans. The challenge for the Democratic Party is to hold on to its strong black base without losing those white Democrats. They haven't been very successful so far. And Fields is a decided underdog in the race." If he wins the November 18 runoff, the 32-year-old Fields will become the state's first black governor since Reconstruction...
Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin got a big boost in his run for the French presidency after winning 23.3% of the first-round balloting against Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac's 20.8%. Still, Chirac is favored to win Sunday's runoff and succeed two-term President Francois Mitterrand...
Chicago's mayor Richard Daley may have won a landslide victory in the city's Democratic primary, but what attracted national attention to Tuesday's balloting was the success of Wallace ("Gator") Bradley and Hal Baskin. The two candidates, who won runoff spots for city council elections to be held in April, were backed by the Gangster Disciples, the city's largest street gang...