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...right-wing mayor of Nice, dogged by charges of tax evasion and embezzlement but still claiming to be "pure as the driven snow," left home for a business trip to Japan. While away, Medecin announced his resignation and is now dawdling in South America...
Local government officials are already restricted by Prop 2 1/2 from raising revenue for local services such as trash collection and snow removal...
...election to Republican John Volpe. He lost a race for attorney general in 1966 and another bid for governor in 1970. He won the 1975 attorney general's race and served in that office until 1987. He now works as a partner with the Boston law firm of Gaston & Snow. He is the Democratic party's endorsed candidate for governor...
...famous as a champion of the dispossessed, speaks thoughtlessly and finds himself vilified as a "racist." Spike Lee, an uncommonly intelligent filmmaker whenever he remains behind the camera, maintains that films about blacks should be directed by blacks (what does this mean for The Bear, one wonders, or for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?). Lee in turn becomes an irresistible target for charges of anti-Semitism. And others contend that Marion Barry is being hounded because he is black, as if to suggest that he be excused because he is black...
DRIVE 70 AND FREEZE A YANKEE. That popular Texas bumper sticker epitomized the bitter regional rivalry of the 1970s, when rising energy prices impoverished the Snow Belt and enriched the Sunbelt. With this summer's oil shock, those feelings could come flooding back. The Northeast is already in a recession, suffering from such maladies as plummeting real estate prices and rising unemployment. The Southwest, by contrast, is beginning to bask in the glow of resurgent economic health. Rising oil prices, coupled with a possible shift in wealth because of the savings and loan bailout, may only serve to aggravate...