Urban populist:
Sinzinger, Keith A.
COMING: Lawrence S. Cunningham of a federal Ireland linking North and South; secondly, British ...
...It's not the first time the odds have been against dence and becomes a ward of the state, or of the federal him, and possibly not the last...
...Furthermore, IRA terrorism is matched by increasing class people," he has waged a constant attack on the endiscontent among moderate Ulster Catholic leaders...
...A partment of Defense proceeded to rock could go very wrong were still the best disaster involving nuclear power makes the atoll with a violence never before people to make decisions about nuclear other potential disasters look small...
...We'll find a way...
...So did the popular Conefforts to contain the uncompromising mayor have failed...
...no movement at all toward increased representation for Reaction to his "new urban populism" has been swift, Catholics in the British parliament and no progress toward concentrated and fierce...
...It victories and the defeats as transitory, but the commitment is a is noteworthy that the additional half percent tax -which had constant...
...Many the drive to retain its public ownership...
...I was talking once with and around the islands, and traces of the are wrong to oppose it...
...Recently 31 bombs were exploded in a single dedicated his administration to an experiment in urban govnight in 17 different Northern Ireland communities, and one ernment, a "national political laboratory" aimed at the aboliBritish ambassador and one British M.P...
...We know their atoll and taken to Ujelang Atoll, 124 the accident at the Three Mile Island nu- what a cave-in does: it crushes and kills...
...seen on earth, setting off forty-three nu- energy...
...and congressional committee investigations, requested by Kucinich and Ralph Nader, are pending...
...Amid bitter name-calling and minority inclusion in any future government of Northern Ire- brinksmanship politics came last summer's close recall vote land...
...In the name of "poor and workingnated...
...So says Kucinich...
...The victory they security duties have been shifted from the British army to the shared that day-the fourth in elections for Kucinich in less Ulster police, and the security barriers around downtown than two years-turns the spotlight back...
...sewer systems, the port, hospital and zoo-as Despite the confrontations which leave the city on the brink the tax base shrank and the population fled...
...And it invites the hazard of control by nameless, faceless ship had been kept afloat by disposal of ballast-city assets bureaucrats working at the behest of special interest groups...
...We're working on it, ment official, an expert on nuclear most conservatives he gets all stupid though," he said...
...secondly, British pressure on the Protestant majority to share power with the writes on Wallace Stevens as "theologian Catholic minority...
...Conservative victory to heighten tensions in Northern Ireland, therefore, what many Catholic moderates desire most is a clear-cut victory for one side or the other, so that the votes of year ago, they charged Britain with either negligence or ac- the Ulster Unionists are not needed by either party for political quiescence in the torture of Irish prisoners by Northern Irish survival...
...The $158.5 million, no-interest, of pension funds in urban economic development...
...30-year payment plan arranged by then-Mayor Ralph J. Perk But the roadblocks to such programs have been many and, would have ended major competition to the private utility in a as Kucinich attempts to lead the city from default and keep his 1,700 square mile area...
...Did they have, animals, plants, and lagoon bottom ma- the people who made The China Syn- I asked him, a way of safely disposing of terial...
...At City Hall, critics are charging the city will "I think that the city is one of the single most important units pile up a $102 million debt by year's end, which Kucinich says of a democratic society...
...What they all avoid is the point which Three Mile Island may now help to make clear...
...it is a perverse sort of noblesse but it doesn't hang around to cause the 136 inhabitants were removed from oblige...
...He said later: "I see the fight for fiscal solvency and home rule in the city of 640,000...
...Johnson started "Muny Light" when Cleveland clared, "Normality is gradually returning to the province," was in the spotlight of progressivism and called the best and as an indication of that the number of British troops has governed city in the nation by Lincoln Steffens...
...Unionists in parliament...
...Britain should consider the unification of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic...
...Even when the separately-run school system ran out of Paine as well as Lincoln, Roosevelt, the muckrakers and money last year, voters declined a new tax...
...and the city's default in December...
...Mean what is good for the growth of the system, regardless of The election outcome demonstrates a growing reluctance, if the impact on people...
...As long as people are being cheated his headline-grabbing style had broken too many political out of government resources, out of their opportunities to gain rules...
...Correspondingly, what moderates in Northern Irepolice...
...Had Daniel Burke the mayor conceded his primary position and agreed to sell the The Bear plant, the banks likely would have refinanced the $14 million in notes and averted the crisis in a spirit of cooperation...
...It attempts to equate political and economic progress in the black community...
...In his downtown to neighborhoods and greater efficiency in gov1977 mayoral campaign, Kucinich made the plant his watch- ernment...
...plant, momentum shifted...
...are fond of similar beside-the-point arOf several minds: John Garvey guments: coal mining is also unsafe for miners, coal pollutes, coal is lightly radioactive, etc...
...Other advocates of nuclear power this most dangerous and least understood 27 April 1979: 231...
...city finances...
...They further charged that Protestant leaders in the land dread is a close outcome to the election, one that would North were blocking negotiations by "intransigence" and that again place a premium on these same Ulster Unionist votes...
...like transit and...
...reflection but not in regret...
...have been assassi- tion of business privilege...
...If you do not own shopping districts have been removed in many places...
...Now, there is the threat of Given this background, two things are needed immediately: state financial takeover...
...Until recently, an increasing measure of quiet had prevailed The gesture was no surprise...
...Cleveland Trust Rumors of his passing holds CEI stock and also shares directors with the utility...
...About half of the all-Democrat Commonweal: 230 funds...
...OWN THEM, OR THEY'LL OWN YOU It is ironic that the Protestant Ulster Unionists played a crucial role when the British Labor party lost the 311-310 vote of TWO DAYS after Clevelanders voted to retain the city's confidence that led to the coming election...
...the faces of politicians caught with their ting cancer by being near a smoker than Like so many other experts, the people hands in the till, and other wise crimi- you do by being near a nuclear power who have risen up to defend the use of nals...
...Some of devoted an issue to nuclear energy, why trust which no one with that scary sort of the enormous craters can still be seen on we need it, and why environmentalists power deserves...
...bolstering consumer advocacy through a special electric generating system, it is now power distributor for city office...
...He admitted The other night I watched a govern- best columnists in the country, but like they didn't...
...I spend time in And Kucinich entered his office with no backlog of favors due...
...The nuclear industry and its governclear explosions consisting of both Several issues ago National Review ment backers have asked for a degree of atomic and hydrogen bombs...
...A recent Federal Reserve Board report cleared that I must see him the bank of alleged collusion with CEI, but Justice Department must look at him...
...almost universal support-is the first voted increase since This commitment, the urban populist platform, is traced by 1968 and a reversal of Kucinich's earlier pledge against new Kucinich to the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas taxes...
...Public Square statue of Tom L. Johnson...
...rang in the green gloom While the income tax and Muny Light sale issues went to the the wisdom of guides ballot as results of the default, the business community threw fell like the crashing tree its support strongly behind the light plant sale, to the extent of the hungers' ruckus holding secret meetings at the exclusive Union Club...
...Until recently an incentives...
...James ("Profit is not a dirty word in office, which now boasts of four women and four blacks (one Ohio") Rhodes is proposing a nine-member panel to oversee is both) in a cabinet of 13...
...nothing to worry about, maybe, and why tion does over the long haul, or the geneAtomic Energy Commission and the De- the same experts who knew that nothing tic effect of high levels of radiation...
...There I knew for sure are conflicting reports whether such a backroom deal was this was his land offered by Cleveland Trust, the state's largest bank with $5 pathless and ruthless billion in assets and leader in the move against the mayor on knew more surely default night...
...Sally Cunneen writes on Iris objectives is and has long been the reluctance of both the Murdoch...
...In a wonderfully an atomic engineer who was sure that radioactivity loosed during the tests are timed April 2nd Newsweek column nuclear power was "the wave of the fustill detectable in leftover debris, soil, George Will fumed about the motives of ture, the only way to go...
...No one in the ARROGANCE SYNDROME anti-nuclear energy movement ever deWATCHING THE EXPERTS MELT DOWN nied that people get hurt in other industries, or that other forms of energy pro" FTER ENIWETOK was made that there is something here you don't duction pollute...
...Writing on the subject of Northern Ireland and the British elsewhere in this issue, Jack Holland predicts a Conservative victory in those elections, and he notes that at least some Irish URBAN POPULIST Republican terrorists look forward to a Conservative success...
...There were unau- of bankruptcy, the 32-year-old mayor has no misgivings, he ditable books, misspent bond funds, deteriorating facilities...
...We're trying to lay the groundwork for the development of KEITH A. SINZINGER an economic democracy-a pre-condition of political democracy," says Kucinich, who overcame both the Republican (Keith A. Sinzinger is a journalist who has lived most of his incumbent and the Democrat-endorsed candidate to win his life in Cleveland...
...One big stumbling block in the way of these of secularity...
...Finally, the silence on the subject in Great Britain should end, and the issue of Northern Ireland should be Report from Cleveland debated in the coming British elections...
...Will is one of the tens of thousands of years...
...Kucinich led been reduced from 21,000 in 1972 to 13,000 today...
...that he would save me In the face of this and early odds that voters would sell the from himself...
...The expert was explaining why cancer and genetic damage...
...City Council President George L. knew that he had seen me Forbes, long the agenda-setter in governance, and Democratic that a whisper of his courage Party leadership supported the sale, as did the two daily news- would be enough papers...
...His civilian $330 million anti-trust suit against CEI, previously found in police chief and recent reform of that department face court violation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
...fervor while the conflict between public and private interests Garret FitzGerald's recent and carefully worked out proposal has escalated...
...What they do point out is part of the vast Pacific trus- understand, but they will tolerate your simple: a disaster in a coal mine is tragic, teeship of the United States, ignorance...
...cation with the self-styled "People's Choice" mayor of the Britain's secretary for Northern Ireland Roy Mason even de- early 1900s...
...eliminating tax abatement nance policy, Muny Light is its beacon...
...directing community development funds from about 45,000 customers -roughly 20 percent of the city...
...He points out, for In other words, trust us...
...gressman Louis Stokes, brother of former Mayor Carl Stokes "The corporate state is basically amoral," Kucinich de- and the only local political leader who can rival Forbes's status clares...
...Planks include: fighting new last month, however, was Muny Light...
...27 referendum, which raised the city what is "best" for the city...
...acting on party light system and increase their income taxes, Mayor orders, eight Ulster Unionists helped to give the Conservatives Dennis J. Kucinich laid a wreath of thanksgiving at the their narrow margin of victory...
...In Britain was encouraging them in this course...
...power, face the press with the expression around this issue...
...Kucinich says he is preparing cases against major word, pledging to stop its sale to the investor-owned Cleveland polluters in the city and plans to propose major reforms for use Electric Illuminating Co...
...miles to the southwest...
...Even those who had supported his with technological progression, and it sets up as its Golden recall backed Kucinich on Muny Light...
...challenges, as does administration of federal block grant The city's default December 15 gave credence to the Kucinich charge that corporate interests were conspiring to run the city, take Muny Light and destroy him in the process...
...Warned whimpered out...
...If the Protestant short, as many moderates see it, a close election in Great majority persists in its unwillingness to entertain reasonable Britain next month is likely to mean an indefinite continuation proposals for sharing power with the Catholic minority in of the present totally unsatisfactory state of affairs in Northern Northern Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom," they said, Ireland...
...As soon as a city gives up its indepenis contrived...
...It typified Kucinich's identifiin Ulster, with deaths from terrorism decreasing each year...
...says...
...If some Irish Republicans want a NEXT ISSUE: Spring Books...
...not a defiant refusal, by voters to accept the corporate ideal of Results of the Feb...
...one banker: "Unless cooperation and encouragement replace populism and confrontation, business will not be able to attain Then I learned to seek him the economic growth necessary to contribute to the prosperity alone and stripped of all who live here...
...In Columbus, Gov...
...The sinking nity...
...They hope to give the impression plant...
...The dicisive issue Henry George, among others...
...a fair place in their economy-we're going to keep fighting...
...power plant (especially nuclear) construction and rate hikes As economic reform is the keystone of Kucinich's gover- ("I see them as regressive taxes...
...government, it runs the risk of destroying the sense of commuHe inherited a city built on years of neglect...
...For the first time, the people of a income tax to a modest 1.5 percent and kept the debt-ridden beleaguered city said 'No' to corporate power seeking to light system, have buoyed Kucinich in what now becomes a rule," Kucinich said on election night...
...We're exof amused irritation you see so often on example, that you stand more risk of get- perts...
...Conservative and the Labor party to take such decisive action John Jay Hughes reflects on the American because each lusts after the votes of the Protestant Ulster Catholic church's need for leadership...
...In the them, they in time will own you," said Johnson of public last few months, however, violence by the Provisional IRA service monopolies...
...But so far, the political parties, local media and 27 April 1979: 229 other community leaders have watched their strength wane as council broke with the leadership...
...They see trenched business, political and media interests...
...I believe in living without regret...
...The Blue Reef, Walter Starck drome, a movie which in his opinion plutonium wastes, which are not only and Alan Anderson, Jr., Knopf, 1978) drastically misrepresented the safe nu- highly radioactive but have a half-life of clear power industry...
...It also would have dismissed the city's office in November, they present an uphill climb...
...For the following clear power plant, near Harrisburg, was But we simply do not know what radiadecade, beginning in 1948, the U.S...
...aimed at driving the British out of Northern Ireland has esca- In 16 months as mayor of Ohio's largest city, Kucinich has lated once more...
...first, a target date announced by the British government for the As with the progressives of three generations ago, there has total withdrawal of their troops, in order to encourage the developed an intensely moralistic, almost religious political majority in Ulster to be open to new solutions, such as Mr...
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