Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoped to ram through his re-election on the first day of the congress, and thus gain effective control over all subsequent proceedings. The delegates would have none of it. Instead, they decided to elect a new 200-member Central Committee first and then choose a leader by secret ballot from among its ranks. Never before in the Soviet bloc had such a tactic been used. Said one congress official: "They tried to push the delegates too far too fast, and they rebelled...
...congress and choosing delegates in the freest elections the country has seen since the Communists consolidated their power in 1947. Under the new rules, nominations could come up from the rank and file as well as down from the leadership, and the final voting was done by secret ballot...
...proportional representation elections like the one that will take place on November 3, a strong slate is helpful to every member because voters rank candidates in order of preference. As candidates are climinated, votes cast for them "transfer" to the candidate ranked next on the ballot...
...most observers as likely to win, as are CCA incumbents Sullivan, Graham, and Duehay, who, as mayor, may have broadened his base of support to parts of the city where CCA candidates usually draw few votes. Liberal challenger Wolf, who gained a record vote total on the School Committee ballot in 1979, is also heavily favored to pick up a seat...
...members of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations considered their ballots for the eight open seats on the organization's 27-person board of directors, Henry Kissinger, 58, who was running for his second three-year term, had to seem like a shoo-in. There were, after all, only nine candidates in the race: Kissinger, former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, 55, Xerox Chairman C. Peter McColough, 58, Citibank Chairman Walter Wriston, 61, Economist Marina von Neumann Whitman, 46, Chicago Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge, 45, former State Department Official William Rogers, 54, Washington Post Columnist Philip Geyelin...