Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts, and Tip is determined to see him in the job. He rushes to every fund raiser for his boy, presses his friends to kick in. "Helping the son is the most important thing in his life," says a close friend. O'Neill wants to stay on the ballot in Massachusetts in 1982 to boost his son's candidacy...
...seems pleased with the present law. Conservatives have put a referendum on the May 17 ballot that would allow abortions only for therapeutic reasons. In turn, liberals are backing a rival measure that would ease some of the restrictions in the current law and allow private clinics to perform the operations...
...elections, Branch offered white political bosses a compromise: although blacks then had 60% of the vote, they would run a combined slate with whites, splitting the available offices fifty-fifty. A white probate judge had a simpler solution: he refused to put the black names on the ballot...
...resulting lawsuit went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ordered a new election, with all names on the ballot, to be held in July 1969. Blacks won all of the contested positions. A year later, Branch won the job of probate judge from the man who had kept blacks off the ballot. In the same election, Gilmore became sheriff. Says Branch: "I used to tell my students to prepare themselves, that they could some day be elected to public office. They looked at me like I was a graduate of an insane asylum...
...President and Defense Minister Paulo Muwanga. Last May Muwanga orchestrated the fall of Uganda's second post-Amin head of state-Godfrey Binaisa-and installed himself as chairman of the six-man military commission that ruled the country until last December's elections. Muwanga presided over the ballot counting that gave Obote's U.P.C. a majority over the rival Democratic Party, which has since accused Muwanga of tampering with the results. Muwanga has flatly denied the charge. He told TIME last week: "If we had wanted to impose Milton on the country, we could have done...