Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their sectarianism, the Unionists and the S.D.L.P. do support the White Paper. Moderates now look to the Assembly election for the first real ray of hope that Ulster may choose the ballot box rather than the bomb...
Most Latin American dictators leave office the same way they came in-at the end of a gun. Argentina's General Alejandro Lanusse has taken the highly unusual step of voluntarily resigning as President, after allowing the people to choose-by ballot-his civilian successor. In a remarkably candid interview with TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath in Buenos Aires last week, Lanusse explained why he turned the reins of power over to Héctor Cámpora, the protégé of ex-Dictator Juan...
...Hunter Thompson that makes him a serious commentator the whole way through. He was about the only journalist who had the license to publish unabridged articles from a whole year of reporting, simply because he made so few mistakes and so many shrewd prophecies. He predicted a first-ballot victory for McGovern at the convention when the Senator had only 95 delegates to his name and he was opposed to Eagleton as a "cheap hustler" from the beginning. In fact, of fifty or sixty bets with fellow reporters during the campaign, Thompson lost only...
Fish to Fry. The Governor first took his proposal to the legislature, where it needed a two-thirds vote in both houses to be put on the ballot in November. The bill ran into opposition from Democrats and bogged down in committee. Prepared for that rebuff, Reagan took his proposal to the public. He started a campaign to round up some 521,000 signatures needed to put the proposition on the ballot. To make the plan more palatable, he combined it with a 20% income tax credit designed to refund to the taxpayers $415 million of this fiscal year...
After the first ballot "Perverto" candidate Richard Goodman led his strongest opponent, Andrew J. Strenio, for the presidency...