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...leader; but Senate Whip Robert Byrd of West Virginia has campaigned tirelessly for that job and has a long lead. Udall would like to compete for the Senate in 1980. The brightest future seems to belong to Jerry Brown, whose lower-thy-expec-tations lines turn on the voters. Unless they weary of his above-it-all vagueness, he may well run for President in 1980 or 1984, when he will be only...
...split (5-4) decision, the court found that state, county and city governments have wide authority to fire their employees without first granting due process protections of specific charges and hearings. Government workers, wrote Justice John Paul Stevens for the majority, have no property interest in their jobs unless state law specifically so provides. "We must accept the harsh fact that numerous individual mistakes are inevitable in the day-to-day administration of our affairs...
Even that sort of growth seemed unlikely early this year, when the very restrictive Proposition 15 held a lead in California public opinion polls. The proposition would have banned all new atomic power plants and even forced the gradual shutdown of the three reactors now producing electricity in California unless two conditions were met. First, utilities and reactor manufacturers had to accept unlimited liability for damage claims that might arise out of a nuclear accident (at present, federal law limits their liability to $560 million per accident). Second, both houses of the California legislature had to certify...
...nations--particularly the black African states--are to view the United States' support for rapid transition to majority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa as more than a tactical maneuver in the face of a collapsing minority government, the U.S. must fully repudiate the apartheid regime of South Africa. Unless the U.S. exerts pressure on its corporations to comply with international embargoes on trade with the two embattled minority regimes, and on the South African government to abandon its rule in the immediate future, black nations will know the U.S. retains its generally racist and opportunistic perspective toward Africa...
...keep wages from being eroded by inflation. And they seem determined to hold out until their strike hurts, as it eventually will. Their walkout highlights a severe problem for the whole nation: even in a basic industry, it takes a very long and bitter strike to get results, but unless inflation can be brought demonstrably under control, such strikes are exactly what can be expected...