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This year, as Vermonters prepared to elect a new legislature under a federal court's reapportionment edict, Democrats naturally expected new triumphs, since their party is strongest in the towns and cities that would be fairly represented in the state assembly for the first time. Lieutenant Governor John...
...Northern Ireland does not have elections very often, and it is probably just as well. Last time around, Belfast officials considered calling out the British army before police in armored cars finally quelled 3,000 rioters, who were tossing lumps of pig iron and Molotov cocktails. But last week, as the country went to the polls to elect a new Parliament, the atmosphere was remarkably subdued...
While New York City's Mayor-elect John Lindsay, 44, was announcing his appointment of a 49-year-old Democrat, Robert Lowery, to become the city's first Negro fire commissioner at $30,000 a year, the board of elections was offered a tentative tally on what it had cost the Lindsay people to be able to hand out such jobs-roughly $2,539,977 in campaign expenses, v. $2,451,919 in contributions. That left Lindsay's organization with more than $88,000 in bills still to pay. Just the day before, the mayor-elect...
Ostensible purpose of the session was a confidence vote on Kimba and his Cabinet, which had been installed last month after Kasavubu fired Tshombe. But even more was at stake. With Parliament and the 21 provincial legislatures due to elect a new President this winter, the vote was the first test of strength between Kasavubu, who wanted badly to be reelected, and Tshombe, his only serious rival for the job. Honoring Congolese political tradition, both sides had spent huge sums to win votes and influence legislators-some of whom reportedly were offered more than $15,000 for their allegiance...
Burying the Bomba. As soon as his victory seemed assured last week, the President-elect called a press conference to tick off his goals. A steadfast friend of the U.S., Marcos said that he foresaw no changes in U.S.-Philippine relations. Backing the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, he pledged that if needed, he would send combat troops in addition to the 100-man Philippine medical unit already there. And he called for a strengthening of economic and cultural relations among the SEATO nations...