Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race focused on other subjects. Says he: "My priorities are auto insurance and environmental issues and crime." But the issue he is trying to duck may bite him anyway. The National Abortion Rights Action League, scenting a favorable political test, vows to pump as much as $500,000 into campaign ads to keep the spotlight squarely on abortion. Says N.A.R.A.L. executive director Kate Michelman: "The New Jersey gubernatorial race is the first example of what we are going to do around the country...
...nevertheless regarded as a crucial turning point for the seven-month-old presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and a watershed in Mexican politics. Salinas, who took office amid charges that he was elected by fraud, vowed that "opposition victories will be respected." He has led a forceful campaign against corruption by arresting powerful drug lords, businessmen and labor leaders. Yet he is still perceived as someone elected by and for the Establishment. The P.R.I.'s acceptance of defeat in Baja is considered a critical test of Salinas' ability -- and desire -- to enforce reform within his own party...
BOSTON--U.S. Marshals seized a tobacco store, an auto body shop and three homes yesterday in a campaign to confiscate inner-city buildings used for drug dealing, law enforcement officials said...
...drop in centers" campus wide to answer questions about the contract. But no membership meetings were called so that rank-and-file members could hear each other's concerns and opinions and debate with one another prior to the vote. Instead, the union office launched a vigorous pro-ratification campaign designed to guarantee acceptance of the contract and smother rank-and-file critical debate...
...regional commander, described the massacre as the "worst ever" perpetrated by the N.P.A. against civilians. While it may have been a desperate measure by the guerrillas, who have lost the military initiative in the rural south, officials in Manila fear that the N.P.A. may soon begin an assassination campaign in major Philippine cities...