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...Mexican-American electorate, which has doubled since 1976, helped to swing the election. Clements made much of White's opposition to the 1965 Voting Rights Act extension, and referred to himself as un hombre de palabra (a man of his word). White countered with slogans like Ya basta . . . de los Republicanos (Enough of Republicans). Chicanos agreed: the Democrats took more than 85% of the Hispanic vote. Statewide turnout was unusually high (49%), and in some black neighborhoods in Houston, which were carried heavily by White, it approached...
...fashion doyen, James Brady, ex-publisher of Women's Wear, was glad to have remained at home in New York. Said he: "You get a designer who shows about 300 pieces, then feels he has to make a speech for half an hour. The Italian press is yelling basta, basta. And the French press is rolling up programs and flinging them at him. And the American press is hung over from drinking too much...
...Mary (a figure of extraordinary veneration in Poland) and referred to his new role as Bishop of Rome,* another bid for the favor of his newly adopted flock. At one point during the speech, a Vatican bureaucrat, caught off guard by the new Pope's departure from tradition, hissed "Basta!" (Enough!) at him; John Paul II ignored him and kept talking...
Dozens of partisan supporters stormed out of the agitated Rome courtroom past tense police bailiffs with shouts of "Phony justice" and "Basta! Enough of violence against the bodies of women." Outside, more than 2,000 militant feminists crying "Viva Claudia!" and "Claudia is not afraid!" marched defiantly past riot police and raised their hands in a triangular sign denoting the womb. The gesture has become a feminist symbol of solidarity...
...them out in the cold. Accordingly, they rejected with gusto the Christian Democrats' proffered olive branch, dismissing the offer of further consultation. Socialist Party Secretary Francesco de Martino declared, "With these Christian Democrats, it's finished. The last possibilities have been burned up." Deputy Loris Fortuna exulted, "Basta! We've cut the last rope. We're not going to let ourselves get dragged into any more rounds of yes-but-maybes or other tiresome stalling maneuvers." The Socialists are confident their stands in favor of divorce and legal abortion-two issues that have fractured the Christian...