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Pantanella, a sophomore, goes to the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. A legal studies major, she fears that the passage of Ballot Question No. 3, which would restore state tax rates to their 1988 levels, will cause increased tuition and a lessened quality of education...
Vilified then as the man who imposed martial law in 1981 and outlawed the Solidarity trade-union movement, Jaruzelski gazed calmly from the sidelines last year as the revolt against communism gathered steam. He acknowledged Solidarity's election victory in June, and then won, with just a single ballot to spare, a parliamentary vote for a six-year presidential term. "As President, Jaruzelski has done practically everything that was expected of him," says Pawel Ziolek, a spokesman of the Forum of a Democratic Right, a coalition group. "Which means he did nothing to disturb the process of dismantling the system...
...merely firecrackers set off by local heat waves? David Carney, head of the White House political office, took the expansive view: "People are sick of incumbents. They're absolutely fed up." Howard Schloss, speaking for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, insists that incumbency is still a huge asset. "The ballot box is sending one message, and the theorists another." In fact, the results seem to highlight an odd disjuncture in the American political system: Carney is right about the voters' damn-all- politicia ns resentments, but Schloss appears right about probable outcomes this November...
...voters reject the petition, the legislature will have leverage to reorganize expensive state accounts and make gradual, sensible cuts in the budget, LoPresti said. If voters embrace the measure on the November ballot, LoPresti said legislators are unsure what will happen...
Last year, more than 180 of the state's cities and towns had some type of Prop 2 1/2 override question on the ballot, signaling to public policy analysts and state legislators at the time that these local governments were under considerable financial stress...