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...come the platform debates, five in all. Jackson's forces will offer minority planks calling for the U.S. to adopt a "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons, cut defense spending sharply, commit itself to enforce affirmative-action goals in the hiring of minorities, and end the second, or runoff, primaries used in ten states when no candidate wins a majority of the vote. (Jackson argues that runoffs are discriminatory because blacks have a better chance of winning a plurality in a multicandidate field than outpolling a white in a head-to-head race.) Gary Hart, who commands roughly...
...candidates met for two hours the next day, they sounded warily friendly. Jackson handed Mondale a list of black and Hispanic women who, he said, should be considered as potential Vice Presidents. More substantive, Jackson pledged that "together we will prevail in November" and even conceded that runoff primaries do not invariably discriminate against black office seekers. That indicated that Jackson might accept defeat gracefully on his minority planks and concentrate his incandescent oratory at the convention, and during the campaign, against Reagan...
Jackson's insistence on an end to run-off primaries for congressional, state and local offices is a pricklier problem. Under the runoff system, mostly in effect in the South, if no one gets more than 50% of the votes cast, the two top vote getters in a multicandidate field are pitted against each other in a second election. Jackson claims that such runoffs are inherently discriminatory, since blacks rarely constitute a majority and thus have difficulty beating a white head to head. One possible compromise: holding runoffs only when the first-round winner receives less than...
More significant, the enthusiastic turnout provoked a near invisible response from the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). Thoroughly unsuccessful last March in their efforts to bully and intimidate voters away from the polls, the guerrillas hardly tried to block last week's runoff. Their disruptive efforts were limited to a few scattered acts of sabotage and isolated attacks on polling areas that left five government troops and six guerrillas dead or wounded. A few guerrillas went door to door in communities with leaflets urging people not to vote. Once the balloting was over, however...
...began, geologists discovered that the plant was being built near the Hosgri fault line. Their findings prompted an overhaul of its structural design. In 1976 P G & E had to replace miles of copper tubing when scientists found that sea life near the plant had been killed by toxic runoff from its piping. Then in 1981 construction came to a halt because some blueprints were discovered to have been reversed...