Word: electable
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Elighty philosophers--including eight Harvard professors--recently signed a petition requesting President-elect Ronald Reagan to withhold military aid from eight Latin American countries that they feel have violated human rights...
...Vice President Walter Mondale led 43 Senators into the cavernous and half-empty House chamber, sat next to House Speaker Tip O'Neill on the rostrum and began one of the oddest-but necessary-rituals of American presidential politics. Exactly two months earlier, Ronald Wilson Reagan had been elected President; in exactly two weeks, he would be inaugurated. Yet, under the cumbersome election procedures set forth in the U.S. Constitution, he was not yet officially President-elect of the United States. One by one, Mondale opened 51 sealed envelopes, which contained certificates reporting the results of Dec. 15, when...
hours, but Reagan's will be held to one, to accommodate TV's limited attention span. Explains Event Chairman Terry Chambers: "President-elect Reagan asked for a short snappy parade." As a result, dozens of high school bands casually invited by Candidate Reagan during the campaign have been quietly disinvited. Only 20 bands, including one from Reagan's home town, Dixon, Ill., will march on Jan. 20; the rest will be asked to play concerts on the White House lawn some time later. The parade will...
Although the president-elect has promised to stop it, and the United States Supreme Court may yet declare it unconstitutional, draft registration began again last week...
...move was also one in a series of possibly ominous indications that President-elect Ronald Reagan may face difficulty in living up to his pledge to conduct a unified foreign policy free of the internal bickering which has plagued recent administrations...