Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposition to budget cuts has inspired a student-run two-cent campaign that encourages students to send Massachusetts legislators two pennies to express their disagreement with the plan...
That such a notorious white supremacist could run and win under the G.O.P. banner was especially embarrassing to Lee Atwater, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Atwater has embarked on a campaign to broaden his party by attracting more blacks. He derided Duke as "a pretender, a charlatan and a political opportunist" who turned Republican shortly before the special election primary on Jan. 21. Duke finished first in a seven-candidate field...
During the runoff campaign against the second-place finisher, Republican home builder John Treen, Atwater sent messages from President Bush and Ronald Reagan urging Duke's defeat. This effort not only failed but apparently backfired. "We resent outsiders coming in trying to influence us," explained Guy Hinton, a third-generation resident of Metairie. Duke, a highly charged campaigner, defeated the stolid Treen by a mere 227 votes...
...Last week Yeltsin overcame that taint as one of two candidates to survive the emotional twelve- hour meeting called to decide how many of ten proposed candidates would appear on the ballot for Moscow's elected representative in the new body. Thus the Soviet Union's first real electoral campaign, in which several candidates will be able to vie for the same seat, entered its final phase...
...FMLN has not yet traded in its guns for campaign posters. The guerrillas attacked two major military bases and knocked out several main power lines last week, leaving 60% of the country without electricity. The message was pointed: Postpone the elections or prepare for an escalation...