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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With just over a week left before the divestment candidates formally submit petitions to be placed on the Overseers ballot, the anti-apartheid group says it is concerned that the University's election rules favor official slate of 12 candidates. Alumni Against Apartheid is currently collecting signatures to place six of its own candidates on the ballot for the April election...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Groups Says Overseers Election Rules Biased | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

Also at issue is the question of electioneering by the University--whether Harvard can openly campaign for the 12 official candidates on this year's ballot...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Groups Says Overseers Election Rules Biased | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

When Filipinos go to the polls on Feb. 2 to vote on a proposed new constitution, the ballot will in effect be a referendum on Aquino. She is putting her immense personal prestige on the line by canvassing the country on behalf of a document that has galvanized her opponents. Meanwhile, negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front, the political arm of the Communist insurgency, are stalemated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines I Know You Still Love Me | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...President's opponents are using the ballot to muster support against the regime. Communists oppose the proposed constitution because it does not, they say, redress social injustices. Juan Ponce Enrile, who was fired as Defense Minister last November after allegedly orchestrating a coup attempt and is widely thought to want the presidency, opposes ratification because, he says, Aquino's abolition of Marcos' constitution undermined the legitimacy of her own rule. He calls Aquino the "new dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines I Know You Still Love Me | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...Number of Democratic candidates on the 1984 New Hampshire primary ballot: Eight--Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Ernest Hollings, Alan Cranston, Reuben Askew, and George McGovern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: after the facts | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

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