Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article about the University of Georgia's denying tenure to Maija Blaubergs [Oct. 6] was scary. It sounds like the beginning of a totalitarian state. Judge Owens is violating the concept of the secret ballot by demanding that faculty members reveal how they voted. Next the Government will want to prohibit secret voting in unions, professional organizations, civic organizations, corporations, and finally in the general elections...
...Andy Sefcik isn't happy. Says he: "I worry that Reagan puts his mouth in gear before his brain is running. And that bothers me in a delicate foreign situation." What Andy would like is some way to protest the choices. After the candidates' names on the ballot, he'd like a "no preference" line to show his despair about the choices. Says he: "What we need now is a President. What we really need is a leader...
Mark Blank, a retired professor of philosophy now living in the Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown, has already cast an absentee ballot since he is planning a trip to Europe. A liberal Democrat all his life, Blank voted for Anderson. He has only disdain for Carter: "The fact that by comparison Jerry Ford has been elevated to the rank of elder statesman is sufficient reason to vote against Carter." Of Reagan, Blank says: "His economics are incomprehensible. I am a hostage to the future in the person of my grandson, and Reagan's urgings that we be No.l in arms...
...mood at the auto plant was the first accomplishment of their country's new government, and a possible harbinger of its durability. The Fiat dispute had contributed to the defeat of the outgoing Cabinet led by Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, which collapsed in September after losing a secret-ballot vote on its economic program. Everyone knew that the strike settlement was related to a four-party political deal that had spawned a new government headed by Christian Democratic Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani. Last week, drawing a comfortable majority of 52 in a parliamentary vote of confidence, Forlani was formally...
...survival? For one thing, he appeared to have a broader base of support within his own party, having assigned three Cabinet seats to its mutinous left wing; some of its members had been suspected of having helped bring down Cossiga by voting against the government in the secret ballot. For another, Forlani had a strongly reinforced Socialist Party behind him, thanks to the aggressive leadership of its burly party secretary, Bettino Craxi, 46. Three weeks ago, Craxi unexpectedly announced an alliance with the Social Democrats and brought them into the coalition as an additional, fourth partner. Finally, in exchange...