Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in 20 years and only the second time in its 30-year rule that South Africa's National Party had needed a ballot to determine its new leader. All three declared candidates, representing rival segments within the party, had remained in the race until the end. As the 172-member party caucus proceeded through two rounds of secret balloting, tension mounted in the crowd gathered outside Capetown's white-columned senate building. Finally the doors opened: Defense Minister Pieter W. ("P.W.") Botha, 62, an uncompromising hardliner, had been chosen to succeed retiring Prime Minister John Vorster...
...candidates. He was also reputedly Vorster's choice for Prime Minister. But Pik's popularity -and his junior status as a minister appointed only 18 months ago-rankled his colleagues. In the end, he was forced to drop out, after receiving only 22 votes on the first ballot...
...Petrus ("Connie") Mulder, 53, another ideological conservative, a party power in the Transvaal province, and Minister of Plural Relations overseeing government affairs with nonwhites. Despite a still simmering scandal involving financial irregularities in the Information Department that was formerly under his ministry, Mulder scored 72 votes on the first ballot, against 78 for P.W. Botha. By prior agreement, Pik Botha gave the Defense Minister the winning majority by throwing his votes...
...evident skepticism: "Will it be possible to find a man with the same qualities?" Though Luciani once described himself as a "wren" among bishops, his papacy revealed him as a rather rarer bird. His reputation for doctrinal conservatism made him acceptable to the traditionalists who voted on the first ballot for Genoa's ultraconservative Giuseppe Cardinal Siri. His firm stand against Italian Communists won him the backing of the pro-Christian Democrat forces, led by Florence's powerful Giovanni Cardinal Benelli. His roots among and love for the poor helped draw him votes from Third World Cardinals who distrust Europe...
Even though he is 72? an age that may now be considered risky ? Genoa's Cardinal Siri may wind up with the largest single bloc of votes on the first ballot at the new conclave, though he will almost certainly go no further. The Genoese arch bishop is a known foe of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council ("They will never bind us," he once said loftily of its pronouncements), and traditionalists who sympathize with his position have apparently supported him only as a gesture of conservative opposition. But Siri can not hope to add the additional...