Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MEMBER of former President-elect Reagan's ill-fated Defense Department transition team--the one whose chairman was ordered never to show his face in the Pentagon again by the Secretary of Defense, and whose report apparently beat a hasty path to the circular file--was ruminating the other day about the nation's leadership change, in particular about the effectiveness of the Reagan transition effort. For four months, a government-in-exile rapidly deployed itself in Washington, seizing an office complex at 1726 Massachusetts Ave. NW, spending money, filling memos and churning gossip at a frightening pace, appointments filtering...
...held in London's Wembley Conference Center, was intense and bitter, but in the end it was a rout. By a margin of 54% to 46%, the conference of Members of Parliament, labor unions and grass-roots party organizers voted to strip M.P.s of their traditional right to elect their own leader. That responsibility will go in the future to a new electoral college in which the more militant unions and the radical local party organizers will hold 70% of the power against only 30% for the M.P.s. Party Leader Michael Foot tried to head off disaster with...
Under the present system, there is no direct election of national leaders. Voters elect the members of Parliament, but these members elect the President and the Prime Minister. The election would only serve Marcos as "an exercise to refurbish his international image," Aquino said...
...viewers. As the Marine Corps Band played stirring renditions of Yankee Doodle and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, official guests in solemn procession arrived to take their positions. The Senate strode in with Leader Howard Baker in front, carrying his omnipresent 35-mm camera. Then came Vice President-elect Bush, President Carter, Vice President Mondale and the Justices of the Supreme Court. Finally, to the strains of the U.S. Army's Herald Trumpets playing Jubilant, Reagan arrived on the podium...
...short, leathery-looking baker turned Communist organizer. A graying law professor who was once the country's moderate Vice President-elect. An attractive, dark-haired ex-medical student turned fierce guerrilla fighter...