Word: electable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People are frightened in this obscure, impoverished corner of the world because an ancient political tradition has finally aroused the attention of the law. Charges of bribery became so rampant in the last election that a federal grand jury is now investigating. This week local residents are giving testimony concerning charges that votes were bought to elect Democrat Congressman Claude ("Buddy") Leach, 44. While Leach ran a tight race with his Republican opponent, Jimmy Wilson, 47, in most of the Fourth Congressional District, he piled up pluralities as high as 13 to 1 in Vernon Parish, enabling him to edge...
Though black voter registration still lags badly, there are now 170 black mayors in cities across the country, including such major urban centers as Atlanta, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington. Marion Barry, Washington's mayor-elect, and his chief deputy, Ivanhoe Donaldson, began their careers as militants in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. Says Barry: "The times have changed and I have changed. I always knew it was better to make policy than to influence it. Electoral politics is just a tool, like non-violent direct action was a tool...
...elect Mickey Leland (D.-Tex.), one of the 32 freshmen congressmen here on a six day conference at the Institute of Politics, addressed the demonstrators, calling the rally and the boycott a "significant and just statement...
...What is it you want?' and they replied, 'We want freedom and democracy.' I asked, to do you mean by democracy?' and they said, 'We're trying to work out just what democracy is. We want freedom of speech, and we want to elect our own leaders.' I asked them, 'Does that mean that the Communist Party is going to be voted out of office?' There were great howls of laughter and a shout...
...federal judgeships, the largest one-shot increase ever. Given normal turnover on the bench, half of the nation's 643 federal appeals and district judges will owe their jobs to Carter by the end of his term in 1980. Says Leonard Janofsky, American Bar Association president-elect: "No modern American President has had such an opportunity to mold the shape and character of the law in our justice system...