Word: ballots
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With a 94% turnout and 85% of the vote in elections last week, President-elect Ion Iliescu of Romania was almost in the same league as his predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, the Communist tyrant who posted similar landslides in pro forma balloting. But this was a free election, complete with opposition candidates and Western observers. That must have made Iliescu's victory all the sweeter, despite opposition allegations of ballot-box fraud, voter intimidation and media monopolization by his incumbent National Salvation Front...
...choice facing Lenin is stark: cede large territories that seem naturally part of his country, or face all-out war without being sure his army is able or willing to fight. At first he is alone in seeking peace; at the end the ballot is almost unanimous. Lenin's mood is not triumphal but exhausted, almost embittered. The last line is "I don't want you to believe me. I want you to understand me." For Soviets that is a haunting answer to the years when blind faith was obligatory. For Americans it is a sorrowful reminder that any leader...
...before Silber can disregard Murphy's candidacy--let alone gain a place on the ballot for September's primary--he must obtain support from 15 percent of the delegates at next month's state Democratic convention...
...think the notion that [the poll] justifies putting Silber on the ballot is a bit inflated," said Daniel B. Payne, an independent Democratic consultant. "Silber still has to prove to a sizeable portion of the delegates that he has the values and ideals of the Democratic party," he added...
...state of Vermont to the city of Irvine, Calif., have moved toward a complete prohibition. And this November, in the best illustration of the power of kitchen ecologists, Californians will have a chance to vote on the most ambitious environmental package of any state in the country -- a ballot initiative that aims at nothing less than protecting all food, air and water from chemical contamination. Says Aurora Castillo, a member of the environmental group Mothers of East Los Angeles: "We used to say we can't fight the government. But we are the government...