Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boomerang. To many of 1965's successful candidates, the name of the game was consensus politics. Yet in several contests, Negroes lodged powerful protest votes by mobilizing as a monolithic bloc-which is the very opposite of consensus...
...candidate--dark horses include Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Congressman Samuel Stratton, and Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson--will have to take into account the influence of New York's junior Senator. Robert Kennedy has no single bloc of loyal convention delegates, and he is making no effort to build one. But there is every reason to believe that Kennedy will try to pass the word at the right time to whomever be considers most acceptable...
...wasn't there, Charles de Gaulle, also dominated the deliberations of Europe's other trade bloc last week. Meeting in Copenhagen, the seven members of the European Free Trade Association-Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-argued over how hotly to pursue their long-range goat of closer trade ties with the Common Market. The big question: Would a major effort only backfire by stirring the French to cause more trouble inside the European Economic Community...
Unlike many of the other independents, Sullivan's search for votes has always been a city-wide effort. Irish Catholics are the largest voting bloc in Cambridge, and, with Sullivan's ability, some sort of powerful voting slate might be developed...
...Minister during the Katanga rebellion and accompanied him into exile in Europe. Kimba's first steps as Premier were encouraging. "To the Congolese people and to the foreigners in our country," he announced, "we guarantee peace and security." Then he invited Tshombe, who still commands the biggest voting bloc in Parliament, to take a leading part in his new coalition Cabinet...