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Last week's outcome, however, left Clinton and Tsongas, both cerebral candidates with a strong sense of purpose, scrapping like ward pols. In Florida Tsongas' best hope in the South, Clinton aired a commercial questioning Tsongas' commitment to maintaining Social Security benefits. When Tsongas accused Clinton of misstatements and scare tactics, Clinton's aides distributed a fact sheet showing that Tsongas had in fact proposed an amendment eight years ago that would have frozen cost of living increases in benefit programs for a year...
...politics is local, so it also reflects personal loyalties. "It's often who recruits you that determines where you go," says Sandy Thomas, the president of the Chicago Social Club, a business that organizes sporting and social events for 6,500 dues-paying members. Thomas lives in the 43rd Ward, a haven for upwardly mobile whites, whose popular alderman, Edwin Eisendrath, is a Clinton man. "Edwin asked me to sign a fund-raising letter for Clinton," says Thomas, "so of course I did." But Thomas will vote for Tsongas. As a former schoolteacher, Thomas should be attracted by Clinton...
...Chapel Concerts--presents Spanishand American songs by soprano Barbara Winchesterand guitarist Robert Ward. Thursday, March 12,noon. MIT Chapel, opposite 77 Mass Ave.,Cambridge. Free...
Eddie G. Marchesseuot, 66, an inspector for the election commission at Ward 8, Precinct 3--the Quincy House polling site--said he was impressed that 156 voters showed...
...lawyers were soon involved in defending the town from Kreimer's legal assault, and its legal bills soared past $250,000. Ominously for Morristown, Kreimer began scoring other legal victories: last April the New Jersey attorney general allowed Kreimer's petition to list "the streets of the fourth ward of Morristown" as a voting address. The following month, Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin struck down the library's rules of conduct as arbitrary and in violation of Kreimer's First Amendment rights. "If we wish to shield our eyes and noses from the homeless, we should revoke their conditions...