Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIBERALS HAVE always been good at internecine warfare; this fall's New York Senate race is a good example of how a head-on collision of two liberals may elect a conservative. The three-way race pits liberal Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-NY) against slightly more liberal Democratic challenger Elizabeth Holtzman in a debilitating battle that may throw the election to an ultraconservative who opposes SALT, ERA ratification, and favors a constitutional amendment banning abortion...
...running mate, Patrick Lucey, is to continue to advance at the expense of the President. Last week Anderson lashed out at Carter for injecting the issues of racism and warmongering into the campaign. When asked how he, a professed liberal on social issues, could stomach helping to elect Reagan, Anderson shot back: "I don't want on my conscience the re-election of a President who has given us 8 million unemployed and a core inflation rate of 10%." Neither of his opponents, complained Anderson, is a bar gain. "People talk about being a spoiler. What...
...tentative proposal--announced last week by John E. Dowling, professor of Biology and chairman of the ad hoc committee examining college governance--would allow House Committees to elect the assembly. It would also make the student caucuses of both the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) sub-committees of the assembly...
...years, the country has been terrorized by an underground army of gunmen from the right and left; in the period immediately before the coup, the terrorists had been killing an average of 30 people a day. Parliament had been deadlocked for more than five months in its efforts to elect a new President and bring an end to the stalemate...
...tended to be sympathetic to, if somewhat saddened by, the generals' reasons for seizing power. As Sir Ian Gilmour, Britain's Deputy Foreign Secretary, put it, "No one likes army coups. But when you have so many political killings and you have spent five months trying to elect a President, then democracy does not appear to be working very well...