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...much as his voting record is liberal, Vellucci's style is old-fashioned. Favors and--before the city manager tightened things up--jobs are important, and issues play a secondary role for most voters in East Cambridge, Vellucci's stronghold. "There's another playground I helped put into the neighborhood. Isn't that what a city councilor should do?" he says. On a less benign level, there probably have been as many Velluccis working for the city, state and county as Cabots and Saltonstalls have gone to Harvard...
Rhodes remained an Ottoman stronghold for centuries, but the winds of fortune and war refuse to allow anyone to possess the island permanently. Today it is part of Greece, but that, too, may change. Rhodes is situated on the Turkish coast, and in the event of war between Turkey and Greece, unfortunately a likely possibility, it will be a prime target for the Turks along with Cyprus, the real focus of the dispute...
...stemmed from the March elections, in which Bhutto's ruling Pakistan People's Party yielded only 36 of the 200 National Assembly seats to the opposition. The P.P.P. polled an incredible 93% of the vote in Punjab, the country's most populous province and an opposition stronghold. It was a dazzling victory-except that practically everybody in Pakistan assumed that the elections had been massively rigged by Bhutto's zealous supporters. Accordingly, the opposition alliance immediately embarked on a campaign of rioting, looting and strikes, which carried with it a threat of civil war. Nearly...
...favorite poet Dylan Thomas. But Callaghan, concerned about possible problems with Welsh nationalists, suggested Newcastle-upon-Tyne (pop. 295,700), a grimy coal town that is rife with unemployment as it attempts to shift to cleaner industries. Besides being the home of Washington's ancestors, Newcastle is a stronghold of the Labor Party (although the Conservatives did surprisingly well there in last week's elections...
...made without considering the fact that Britain is trying to moderate Welsh nationalist demands. Callaghan suggested a visit instead to the ancestral home of George Washington near the coal town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Prime Minister felt that taking the President on a tour of the Labor stronghold would be a political coup that would help his hard-pressed party...