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Later in the week, other residents in Soweto formed their own vigilante groups to protect themselves. Police, at first delighted by the Zulu backlash, were belatedly ordered to move in and separate the black combatants. Police admitted killing 14 of the week's victims and wounding dozens of the others with small-size buckshot-a tactic ordered by Justice Minister Kruger to keep the death toll down...
Trojan Horses. A battle was developing in Mississippi, where signs of a backlash surfaced over the attempt to promote a Ford takeover-and at week's end a narrow majority seemed to be leaning to Reagan. "The Ford folks tried some overkill, and I think it's backfired on them," observed State Republican Chairman Clarke Reed. He accused Ford's local delegate hunters of "high-pressure tactics and lies." He said that one of them called another delegate and said, "If you don't sign on by 9 a.m., you won't be a federal...
This may all seem like water under the proverbial bridge. But don't forget that the Republicans are spending thousands of dollars on negative research about Carter and that Jerry Brown's success in the final primaries might indicate a growing backlash against Carter's fuzziness on the issues and his own past...
...where the party headed by Georges Marchais shares a Programme Commun with François Mitterrand's Socialists. Together, the two leftist parties gained more than 49% of the vote in the 1974 presidential elections. Others, however, believe that an Italian Communist success would only produce right-wing backlash in France...
...convention were to turn to someone who had not gone to the people, then I think that the people would feel that their primary votes had been in vain. It would create a backlash against the primary system. I'll support