Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refused to give up, despite Glenn's insistence that "I am not playing games; I have withdrawn." Meeting in Columbus, a score of Glenn men decided to continue campaigning for him, since his decision to pull out came too late for his name to be removed from the ballot. "He's a guy who's gonna get better," said John...
Cabot Lodge's chance to score one last impressive win before the Republican Convention will come in Oregon's free-for-all May 15 primary, when all major Republican contenders will be on the ballot...
Faced with such voter cunning, the Interior Ministry before the latest election grappled for weeks with the delibility factor, finally developed an ink so potent that many a horny-handed Somali ballot stuffer came down with a skin rash. That took care of most repeaters. Despite scattered reports of overenthusiastic balloting, not to mention a slight riot (13 dead, 20 hurt), Somalia's election was the straightest in its young history-and one of the freest in all Africa. All but final results announced last week gave the ruling, middle-road Somali Youth League of Premier Ab-dirashid...
Lichtenberger also announced that he would appoint a nominating committee of bishops, priests and laymen to recommend three candidates to succeed him. The new P.B. must be a bishop, will be elected by secret ballot at the meeting of the House of Bishops in St. Louis next October. Among the most likely prospects: the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, who is resigning this fall as executive officer of the Anglican Communion, and Bishop Richard Emrich of Michigan...
...COLOMBIA: In elections to fill half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies, an old, deposed dictator pulled off a disturbing ballot-box coup. Ex-General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, tough right-wing dictator from 1953 until he was overthrown in 1957, is barred by law from politics, lives in semi-exile in his backlands home. Under no such restraint, his resurgent party lambasted President Guillermo León Valencia's bipartisan government for higher income taxes, deficit spending and spiraling living costs. Rojas-backed candidates piled up 21% of the vote, to win 27 seats...