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...South, predicts that another 4 million will register before 1984, enhancing the role of blacks in choosing the next President and challenging Reagan's re-election chances. "The President and the Republican National Committee stand in fear of the black vote," concedes R.N.C. Official Ron McDuffie. The 1980 census shows 17 million blacks of voting age-10.5% of the U.S. electorate-with half in the South and concentrations of at least 1 million each in key states such as New York, California and Illinois...
...environmentalists and antinuclear militants, which charged that the Volkszählung, or people count, amounted to an invasion of privacy. (The questionnaire asks about everything from monthly rent to religious beliefs.) Last week an eight-judge federal court decided that there was merit to the argument and ordered the census postponed...
...interesting question: Does the government's need to know about its citizenry, for such purposes as economic planning and urban development, supersede the individual's right to privacy? In West Germany at least, the government has unwittingly undermined its case with less-than-convincing assurances that census information would be treated confidentially. Official credibility was certainly not helped by disclosures that Munich census takers would be paid a bonus of $1 for every unregistered German they turned up and $2 for each illegal alien...
...eventually forced it to send in army troops to take over the oilfields. When national elections were held in 1980, the students prevented balloting in twelve of the state's 14 constituencies. The following year the dissidents prevented the national government from taking a census that was intended to help address some of their grievances...
...violate two federal laws by keeping blacks off the municipal payroll and preventing blacks from moving into town at all. U.S. Attorney Dan Webb calls it perhaps "the most egregious, aggravated case of race discrimination" his office has ever prosecuted. The statistical evidence is stark. The 1980 census found only 74 blacks in a population of 61,232, despite the fact that adjacent Chicago is 40% black. Not one of Cicero's schoolchildren is black. Nor are any of its 400 municipal workers, since Cicero requires that its employees live there for a year before they can be hired...