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...immediate focus of the protests is a plan for restructuring the city council, put forward by Mayor Annette Strauss and the city council, that will be voted on in a special election this weekend. But black and Hispanic leaders say something more fundamental is also taking place. The civil rights movement that swept the South a generation ago somehow bypassed Dallas. Now, fueled by population shifts that have made blacks, Hispanics and Asians nearly half the population, the movement has finally arrived. Vows County Commissioner John Wiley Price, a black: "We're not going to sit back...
...Strauss concedes that minorities are underrepresented on the city council, which has eight members chosen from single-member districts and two others (plus the mayor) elected from the city at large. She and the council have proposed a system of ten single districts, with four other members to be picked from large areas of the city...
This so-called quadrant plan has enraged nonwhite opponents, who contend that at-large voting is stacked against minorities because of the higher costs of mounting campaigns. Charges black Councilman Al Lipscomb: "It's a scheme to preserve Anglo business and political power." He and others contend that Strauss, who was twice elected with heavy black and Hispanic support, sold out to the Anglo establishment and then conspired to keep a minority proposal for all single-member districts off the ballot...
...Strauss insists that having some broad, citywide perspective on the council is essential, "in contrast to having people that are singularly concerned about their own districts." The mayor's supporters are also counting on splits among minorities. Some Hispanics, for example, see no great benefits to more single districts because their population is not concentrated in any particular neighborhood...
...have been accepted in large measure throughout the world. Twenty- six years ago, selling your jeans could land you in a Soviet prison. In May of this year, the Soviets put on a trade show in San Francisco to try to attract trading partners and investors like Levi Strauss...