Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusually subdued Edwin Edwards noted, "it has to end sometime." After finishing second in an open primary on Oct. 24, he admitted defeat in his attempt for a fourth term as Louisiana's Governor. His successor will be four- term Congressman Buddy Roemer, 43, a reform-minded conservative Democrat...
...Democrat Wallace Wilkinson easily won election as Kentucky's governor yesterday night while fellow Democrat Ray Mabus held a steady lead over Republican Jack Reed in Mississippi's statehouse race in off-year elections...
...bitter city hall contest, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode held a slim lead over former Mayor Frank Rizzo in his bid for a second term. With 92 percent of the ballots counted, Goode was gaining 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for Rizzo, a former two-term Democrat who switched...
Gary, Ind., Democrat Thomas Barnes, who ousted veteran Mayor Richard Hatcher in a Democratic primary, won election easily...
Martens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, threw in the towel after it became clear that his four-party, bilingual governing coalition was about to dissolve. The issue: what to do about Jose Happart, the acting mayor of Les Fourons, a small French-speaking town in Dutch-speaking Flanders. Happart refuses to take a Dutch-language competency test to prove his compliance with a law requiring that public officials conduct business in the language of ^ their regions. French speakers reject the Flemish court ruling that introduced the competency tests; Dutch speakers want Happart removed from office...