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...Boston last month (causing Mark Zweicher, a Business School student and Carter aide, to grumble in the back of the bus, "Julian's looking for some limelight, and we think he's on the Harris payrole anyway"), and rumor has it that Atlanta Mayor Jackson is leaning toward Sargent Shriver. On the other hand, the compromise desegregation plan Carter helped negotiate for Atlanta--substituting voluntary for mandatory busing--is probably unraveling under court tests, and his opposition to both "forced busing" and an anti-busing constitutional amendment will win him few votes on either side of the issue...
...Sargent Shriver, the latest Democratic presidential candidate to personally seek support at Harvard, encouraged a renewal of active student participation in politics and vowed to bring the presidency closer to the American people in a speech at Boylston Hall last night...
...Sargent Cheever '32, director of admissions, said yesterday there was a discussion of the "inordinately high" percentage of medical students from middle and upper classes at a faculty meeting on Friday...
Things, however, are not always what they seem. In fact, Dukakis has turned out to be very much like Frank Sargent, only worse, Sure he takes the subway to work instead of a limousine, eats sand-wiches in the office instead of big banquets, and hired a bright young staff. And he made a big splash on the surface with these gestures when he first took over. But, to date, he has not acted any differently than Sargent would have when faced with matters of substance. In fact, he has often goofed in ways Sargent never would have thought...
...biggest issue he has had to face so far, though, is the state's financial crisis. The present trauma is the result of hidden deficits during the Sargent years, the depressing effect of Massachusetts unemployment on the tax base, and the state's commitment to high-cost social service programs. The problem is one he shares with almost every other governor in the U.S. But faced with this first major test, he has decided to back-pedal rather than lead. And his actions during the last six months reveal a lot about the politics of fiscal crisis...