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...temporarily to paper over their differences. Though its conference last weekend exhibited DA's continuing slow but steady growth, Democratic Agenda is only a beginning. If the Agenda platform is to provide a launchingpoint for greater economic democracy in America rather than an expedient steppingstone for a business-as-usual Kennedy candidacy, coalition members will have to work on permanently transforming the outlook of the electorate from one of forever seeking a "better" candidate to one of confronting the alleged abuses of corporate power in America and abroad. That is a long road, but after all, there's a whole...
...ALBUM BEGINS with "Wake Up and Live"--pure reggae, although Marley adds more brass than usual. The lyrics are simple yet stirring...
...gifts (two staples: cheap watches and T shirts) as well as outright bribes to curry favor with voters. And as for the office seekers, they could bank on a rule of Kenyan politics that says that fewer than half of the sitting legislators ever get reelected. This year, as usual, only about half the incumbents retained their seats. Observed a Kenyan economist: "We don't shoot people in this country. We let the public...
Barbeau, who counseled relatives and colleagues of the dead after two air disasters that left no survivors-the 1978 San Diego crash of a 727 and the DC-10 crash in Chicago last May-says the shock resulting from these crashes was more widespread than usual I among airline employees. Reason: the outside observer always wards off fears of death by identifying with the survivor; with no survivors, those fears are harder to disperse...
...instead, the issue were to be defined just as intangibly as "character" in the candidate, would either Kennedy or Connally be so eager to make a campaign issue of it? (On many a newspaper, such a question would itself be regarded as loaded and would be edited out; the usual rule is: let an opponent raise the question, then quote him.) In the present murky confusion, the press finds it safer and easier just to keep score-to concentrate on who's ahead in the polls or at the polls. That's not particularly elevating, but neither...