Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The past week's developments include fresh allegations, especially from the campaign of L. Joyce Hampers. Observers predicted even after her nomination at April's Republican Convention that she would use her trademark hard-hitting campaign style. Her attacks on 22-year incumbent Robert Q. Crane's private finances have...
That history is almost as old as the night. In the Odyssey, Odysseus visited the land of the dead, where he reported that "pale fear got hold of me" as the spirits rose up to drink blood. Every ethnic group has spun folktales of the ungrateful dead. Even so, horror...
Last week the 13,000 controllers currently on the job were trying to organize. At a founding convention in Chicago, a new organization known as the National Air Traffic Controllers Association announced that it intends to win certification as a bargaining unit. The association declared that it had collected 4...
The defendant in the dimly lit Ankara courtroom last week was expressionless as the prosecutor called for a verdict of not guilty. Bulent Ecevit, three- time Prime Minister of Turkey between 1974 and 1979, had been charged with engaging in political activity, which under a 1982 decree is illegal for...
Kennedy's supposed rival for the seat, Republican Clark Abt, was nowhere to be found when Kennedy addressed the convention.