The Week

■ The people of Tucson, Arizona are pressing for a city ordinance making it illegal to swear at the police. Pretty thin-skinned bastards down there.

■ Connecticut’s tight-fisted Republican Governor, Thomas Meskill, whose first two years in office were spent battling a Democratic-controlled General Assembly (he set a record last year by vetoing 175 bills), now has the majority he needs to get on with promised conservative reforms. In his first interview since the Republican sweep in Connecticut, Meskill said he will continue to cut spending, expressed confidence that the state can avoid an income tax, and said he hopes to see legislation enacted imposing the death penalty on rapists and possibly drug pushers as well as murderers, requiring mandatory jail sentences for drunken drivers and streamlining current wiretap laws. Next, Massachusetts.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

■ The people of Tucson, Arizona are pressing for a city ordinance making it illegal to swear at the police. Pretty thin-skinned bastards down there.

■ Connecticut’s tight-fisted Republican Governor, Thomas Meskill, whose first two years in office were spent battling a Democratic-controlled General Assembly (he set a record last year by vetoing 175 bills), now has the majority he needs to get on with promised conservative reforms. In his first interview since the Republican sweep in Connecticut, Meskill said he will continue to cut spending, expressed confidence that the state can avoid an income tax, and said he hopes to see legislation enacted imposing the death penalty on rapists and possibly drug pushers as well as murderers, requiring mandatory jail sentences for drunken drivers and streamlining current wiretap laws. Next, Massachusetts.