Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gierek's speech also contained a tempting concession to the strikers: the offer of new secret-ballot elections to the party-controlled Central Council of Trade Unions. Instead of the current system, under which the outgoing representatives propose 85% of the candidates, the new vote would be open to an unlimited number of candidates-including the current strike leaders. The workers in Gdansk remained unimpressed. Said Lech Walesa: "We are not politicians. We are not interested in politics. We want our own trade union...
...Chun Doo Hwan, 49, the military strongman, ordered construction to begin on his inaugural stand before the election was even announced. Then last week the National Conference for Unification, the rubber-stamp electoral college, convened in Seoul's Changchung arena to make it official. With only one invalid ballot marring the unanimity of 2,525 delegates, Chun was voted the country's fifth President since it gained statehood...
...could not accept. The Senator himself won 1,146.5 votes on the final roll call, to Carter's 2,129, an unheard-of performance for a man whose name was never formally placed in nomination, and who officially released his delegates to vote as they pleased before the ballot...
...much surprised by is the enormous doubt that exists about Ronald Reagan." As the oratory thunders toward its November climax, Democratic planners have high hopes that millions of traditional party voters, frightened by visions of Reagan, the ideologue, and viewing a vote for Independent Candidate John Anderson as a ballot thrown away, will return, however grudgingly, to the fold. One politician unimpressed by the likelihood of any such Democratic unity is Ronald Reagan. Said he last weekend: "I shall forever remember the final scene that night when the Senator from Massachusetts joined the President on the platform. If that...
Needless to say, city officials are panicked by the prospect that the proposition will pass. If they lose at the ballot box, they'll go to the state for special home rule legislation exempting the city, and they may try to stage a local referendum on the issue. If they're unsuccessful, it may make Cambridge's other problems irrelevant. After all, how can you desegregate a boarded-up school...