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That sturdy old American political weathervan the New Hampshire Primary, has become mo like the whirling arrow on the television quiz show Wheel of Fortunix a media game of who [...]

The article presents incidents related to the world politics. José Napoleón Duarte's, stunning defeat in the legislative and municipal elections was a long overdue and richly deserved come- uppance for a man who thought that becoming president was more important than maintaining political integrity in El Salvador. For most of the past decade he has been a pathetic hostage of the armed forces, failing to grasp that he might have secured his political future had he found the courage to attempt the reforms on which his populist reputation was based. Another incident refers to the political campaign of Jesse Jackson on television as a U.S. Presidential candidate.

The article focuses on the European Parliament. From Milan to Manchester and from Madrid to Munich, voters do not much care which of the 567 deputies represents them in Strasbourg, so when they do bother to go to the polls, they can express their preference without worrying about wasting their vote. The European elections, held every five years, thus serve as a glorified opinion poll, providing a good snapshot of the political mood of the moment, though not necessarily a guide to future national elections.

The article reports on the issue that created misunderstanding between Jesse Jackson and white social democrats. The New York Times' reporter Michael Oreskes wrote a story that asserted that Jackson had asked the Democratic Socialists of America (D.S.A.) to withhold its expected endorsement of his candidacy on the eve of D.S.A.'s national convention. Appended to the endorsement story was Oreskes's short list of Jackson's betrayals of the left, which include, Jackson recently refused to repeat a remark he had made at the United Nations last year comparing the movement against the U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico with the black struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

Analyzes the competition between California State Controller Alan Cranston and Pierre Salinger for the U.S. Senate seat in 1964. State of politics in California; Comparison between the two candidates; Political background of Cranston and Salinger; Characterization of the candidates' campaign.

Barely a year ago hundreds of thousands of gays and lesbians thronged Washington to celebrate a new measure of political power and social recognition won after long struggle. The White [...]

The article presents socio-political updates from the world, as of June 5, 1989. Now comes a case involving an unauthorized and critical biography of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, and the same U.S. Court of Appeals has pushed the doctrine of the inviolability of unpublished letters to its most ridiculous extreme. The book in that case, "Bare-Faced Messiah: The Story of L. Ron Hubbard," was a full-length biography of Hubbard, which contradicted many of the claims made by the Scientologists about his life and, in the court's words, "depicted him as a charlatan and poseur." At midnight, after the polls closed in Panama, the military stopped the count. The next day, when opposition supporters gathered to protest the fraud, the regime's goons opened fire on the crowd, killing one and wounding scores. Soon afterward, the election tribunal declared the official candidate the winner.

This article presents the author's views on U.S. politician and economist, Michael Dukakis's candidacy for U.S. President during the Presidential election in 1988. Dukakis does not lack for material for every possible rationalization of his shortcomings in the department of ideology and issues. He stands in the middle of the party between the military-racist faction on one side, and the Jacksonian progressives on the other. Most civilized U.S. Democratic voters will see that he is better, in some essentialist reading, than Vice President George Bush.

This article presents information related to U.S. politics. Andrew Kopkind writes that the author's presidential campaign in New Hampshire was "bizarre," that it "had no serious political strategy and proved ultimately pointless." Kopkind has simply failed to do the kind of job worthy of this periodical and its readers. Never once did he bother to interview the author or try to find out what the "point" was of the author's campaign. An election strategy is a plan, a program to organize a constituency, a scheme to amass support. The goal is to win elections or, failing that, to accumulate enough electoral power to influence an election, to impose an agenda, to remake a party or realign parties.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing topics and articles discussed in previous issues. Focus on the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign. State Democratic apparatchiks were excluded from Dukakis's counsel in all its stages from summer into autumn; Comment on Mikhail Gorbachev's insistence on "reasonable sufficiency" as a guideline for Soviet defense spending, replacing the goal of superiority and even parity.