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Presidential hopeful Michael S. Dukakis, three-term governor of one of the biggest energy-consuming states, introduced energy as a major campaign issue in speeches in New Hampshire and Wyoming over the past week. Dukakis urged the nation to rely less on imported oil and to promote domestic oil production and conservation...
...Yancey said not all of Flynn's actions this past term have benefitted Blacks in Boston. "Flynn has not been aggressive in hiring people of color to high-paying city positions," said Yancey...
Still, the delegates were not complacent. The theme of the annual conference was "Action for the Third Term," and there was much talk of finding ways to keep the Thatcher revolution from running out of steam. The Tories thus endorsed further cuts in taxes, tougher anticrime measures and new curbs on labor unions...
...streets were hung with political posters and multicolored banners, and noisy crowds gathered for campaign speeches. But when 12.7 million Egyptians went to the polls last week, only one candidate was on the ballot, President Hosni Mubarak, and he was approved for a new six-year term with 97% of the vote...
Mubarak was assured of a second term in July, when he was nominated without opposition by the People's Assembly, Egypt's legislature. Although last week's vote lacked suspense, it was nonetheless a tribute to the staying power of the taciturn, plainspoken Mubarak, who was Vice President when President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. Mubarak has expanded democratic freedoms at a time of severe economic problems and rising Islamic fundamentalism. When he was chosen for his first term in the tense period immediately after Sadat's death, "the big turnout was not for Mubarak, it was for Egypt...