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...David Wylie, can use the power of an incumbent and he has done it well, staking out his own ground over the past year with a well-publicized campaign against nuclear arms. He has not hesitated to take credit for the pamphlet the council produced, largely at his behest, calling for disarmament. And he has also not hesitated to picture himself as the weakest incumbent, apparently in hopes that supporters of other candidates or undecided voters will come to his aid at the last minute, (a tactic that saved him in 1979). Wylie may not be as weak...
...liberal Democratic manifesto, Nixon proclaimed: "Something very like the honor of American democracy is at issue. America has come to the aid of one starving people after another. But the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time." At his behest, Congress in 1970 passed amendments to the National School Lunch Act that gave the program its current structure...
...less." With those words, spoken from the gilded rostrum of France's National Assembly last week, Socialist Premier Pierre Mauroy unveiled his government's program for transforming the country's social and economic landscape. The only real surprise was Mauroy's determination, at the behest of President François Mitterrand, to act quickly on the basic planks of the Socialists' electoral platform: nationalization of banks and a number of industries, decentralization of the nation's administrative machinery, and reform of the tax and judiciary systems...
Once again, campaign posters sprouted across the land like wild flowers after a spring rain. At the behest of France's new President, François Mitterrand, the country plunged last week into its second election campaign of 1981, a lightning, three-week blitz to elect a new National Assembly, one that Mitterrand fully intends to see reflect his own Socialist image...
...member of the Club said that he felt that "numerous people who appeared to have joined the Republican Club" at the behest of certain candidates "solely for the purpose of voting for these candidates" were present at the meeting...