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There may be slight stirrings of rising sales in the auto industry, but almost everything else about Detroit is gloomy these days. Among other problems, a corruption scandal involving at least six federal investigations is plaguing Mayor Coleman Young's administration. The three-term black mayor has not been personally implicated, but he and other city officials have been preoccupied with fending off the various probes...
...perfectly legal, even desirable. But the love of the job can contribute to a certain blurring of the national interest and the personal interest. F.D.R. doubtless convinced himself in 1940 that it was for the good of the nation and the world that he should be the first three-term President. It would be refreshing some time to hear a politician admit he wanted to be President simply because it is the top job in his business. (The motivation of J.F.K., Nixon, Carter.) But it is not an auspicious basis for a presidency. It suggests a lack of idealism...
Dartmouth College has proposed a plan to end its unique year-round calendar that has been used since 1972. The proposal, providing for a return to a three-term schedule through the elimination of the summer term option, comes as a response to what Hans Penner, dean of the Arts and Science, called "student and faculty concern for the lack of continuity in undergraduate life...
...beleagured three-term Gov. William Milliken announced more than a year ago that he would step down from the office occupied by a Republican for 20 years. Milliken is leaving his state in ruins, and an intense governor's race confronting the state's epidemic economic problems seemed like a potential bright spot in a social and political panorama of utter bleakness...
TRIBLE PLAY. The race in Virginia for Senator Harry Byrd's vacated Senate seat is at the top of the White House most-wanted list. But what looked in May like assured ascension for three-term Republican Congressman Paul Trible, 35, a letter-perfect Reagan loyalist, has turned into a neck-and-neck finish with Democrat Richard Davis, 61, the state's Lieutenant Governor. With a statistically insignificant two points between them in the latest polls, neither candidate leads. The boyish-looking Trible, who stalked the Republican nomination for two years, is viewed by some as transparently ambitious...