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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sitting in the VIP gallery near Nancy Reagan, White House Congressional Liaison Max Friedersdorf thought he counted some 70 Democrats standing up too. Said he jokingly to an aide: "Can't we count this as our vote and pack up and go home?" Friedersdorf was referring to the fact that Reagan needs up to 40 Democrats to join the Republicans, minus a small number of defectors, in order to carry his program through the Democratic-controlled House. Behind Reagan at the Speaker's desk, Democrat Tip O'Neill noted the applauding members of his party, turned...
...reason: Mitterrand wants the votes of Communists and anti-Communists at the same time:" Giscard's rather derisive conclusion: "Mitterrand is seeking an impossible alliance between water and fire." That dampening prospect may yet suffice to turn France's voters away from Mitterrand in the final count...
However, the Catholic Church per mits annulments on several grounds, and two of her marriages might qualify. A third does not count with either church be cause it was a civil ceremony. Her first marriage, to a man named Frank Kallas, initially seemed to be no problem; she said Kallas was dead. But then, only two days after the wedding to Carey, he turned up again, alive and just about to open a restaurant in Califor nia. Mrs. Carey contends her Kallas marriage was invalid in any case because he was married to someone else at the time...
That afternoon the Armed Forces occupied the city of La Paz, closed the University and took numerous political prisoners; the count soon reached 2000. A few hours later the Constitutional president, Lydia Gueiler, abandoned the government and General Luis Garcia Meza, commander of the Army, assumed the Presidency...
...largest percentage decline of any major U.S. city. People are leaving so fast that each year more than 30% of the first-graders in city schools do not return for the second grade. Though St. Louis has filed a federal suit challenging the census count, the city is probably going to lose two state senators, seven state representatives, a Congressman and more federal aid than it can afford. St. Louis has also lost 24,000 jobs since 1973. Vincent Schoemehl Jr., a former alderman who was inaugurated as mayor last week, defeated Incumbent James Conway with the slogan: "Every working...