Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party and some other public organizations are entitled to directly choose 750 of the 2250 members of the new Congress of People's Deputies. The other 1500, representing territorial districts, will be chosen March 26 in nationwide elections...
...hostages drag their agonizing discussion late into the night. Pastor Weir and Father Jenco make no effort to put themselves forward, and Sutherland is too much of a gentleman. But Anderson nearly takes a swing at Jacobsen as the two men engage in a bitter contest to be chosen. Anderson wins the vote, but then is devastated when Hajj refuses to abide by the decision. "Terry Anderson will not be the first to be released," he snaps. "He might be the last one." A few nights later, Hajj tells Pastor Weir he is going home...
...Yeltsin has refused to disappear. Banished to a deputy-ministry position in the construction industry, he is now attempting the unheard-of in Soviet life: a political comeback. Widely popular on the streets of Moscow, Yeltsin has got himself chosen as one of two candidates in the March 26 nationwide runoff for the brand-new Congress of People's Deputies. Today he campaigns daily around the city, exciting cheering crowds and recruiting campaign workers at every stop. He interrupted the frenzy of his quest and granted an interview in his Moscow office with TIME Washington correspondent David Aikman...
...Should the President of the Soviet Union be chosen by a direct, popular vote...
...nation's leading experts on European comparative politics and international relations, Putnam--who has taught in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1979--was chosen over at least three well-qualified professors from within the Kennedy School faculty...