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Then, suddenly, the implausible began to happen. Thousands of volunteer poll watchers, singing hymns and burning candles, formed a human barricade against the armed goons and carried their ballot boxes through the streets to counting stations. Thirty of the government's vote tabulators walked out in protest against the fraud. The country's Catholic bishops publicly condemned the election, and the U.S. Senate echoed the protest...
...part, Washington is taunting his challengers by playing a masterly game of political chicken. Last week the mayor filed a huge stack of petitions qualifying him for a spot on the Democratic primary ballot. Should only one Democratic contender square off against him, reducing his chances of winning, the mayor may duck the party contest and jump straight into a three- way general election as a black independent running against a white Democrat and a white Republican. Washington clearly relishes forcing his opponents to play a guessing game. "I am getting a tremendous amount of pleasure out of watching...
...What they could not accomplish at the ballot box, the president's opponents are trying to accomplish on the evening news," Buchanan said Monday night. "We know what they are after, and who they are after...
Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield tried to turn back progress at last week's faculty meeting. In the ballot to make Women's Studies a degree-granting program, Mansfield cast the lone dissenting vote of the entire Faculty of Arts and Science. The lack of any more organized opposition in the sometimes fractious faculty demonstrates how far Women's Studies has come as an academic field beyond the walls of the Yard. Now it's finally time for the discipline to continue its advances within them...
Other voting reflected divisions among the bishops. In the second ballot for a new vice president, Law received 39% and Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, a May-style moderate, 34%. Milwaukee's liberal Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who has implied that there are similarities between the Pope's clampdown and inquisitions of the past, drew 26%. Pilarczyk eventually won. In elections of U.S. representatives to a Vatican synod next year, moderates and liberals joined forces to elect Weakland and again bypass...