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This week Mexicans will be watching carefully as the returns roll in from municipal and legislative elections held Nov. 11 in the state of Mexico. There is widespread skepticism that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has governed the country for 60 years, will permit a fair count in the state, where it lost in 1988. The party's reputation is not helped by the fact that two P.R.I. victories last year in the central states of Guerrero and Michoacan provoked opposition charges of ballot rigging and resulted in violent clashes between police and demonstrators...
...amount of money state agencies, departments and authorities could spend on consultants each year. Subsidiary provisions would also establish a method for these entities to gradually come into compliance with the new spending limits and would give authority to the state secretary of administration and finance, on request, to permit some spending in excess of the new limits. The proposed law would also require state agencies, departments and Authorities as well as the secretary of administration and finance to submit yearly reports concerning the state's consultant contracts to certain legislative committees and to the inspector general...
...also provides that the fee imposed by any state agency or authority shall be no more than the fee that was in effect on or before June 30, 1988. The state secretary of administration would determine the amount to be charged for any service, registration, regulation, license, fee, permit or other public function, except for the rates of tuition of fees at state colleges and universities or any fees or charges relative to the administration and operation of the state courts. Any increase of decrease in a fee, or the establishment of any new fee, would require the approval...
...half of 1 percent (4 percent) of the entire vote cast in the previous state election for governor (as compared to 2 percent as of 1989), and would also establish this number of signatures as the upper limit needed for major party candidates. The proposed law would also permit voters to sign the nomination papers of any number of candidates for the same office, would require that all blank forms to be used for nomination papers and initiative and referendum petitions be no more than 8 1/2 inches by 14 inches in size, and would allow signatures to be collected...
...Civil Rights Act would reverse half a dozen decisions by the Reagan-engineered Supreme Court that have raised a wall of technical obstacles for minorities and women bringing discrimination lawsuits against employers. Among other things, the bill would ban racial harassment on the job and expand existing laws to permit victims of race, religious or sex bias to win judgments against their employers and collect damages...