Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mighty efforts to end the capital's colonial status would come to naught. In one of the rare and least expected setbacks dealt him by the docile 89th Congress, the House last week killed Johnson's bill to give the District of Columbia the right to elect its own public officials and run its own affairs-a privilege last enjoyed in the federal city...
...they did, the anti-home-rule coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats quickly took command. As on countless previous occasions when similar bills have come up, opposition to home rule was largely rooted in congressional fears that the nation's only predominantly Negro (62%) major city would elect a predominantly Negro government...
Johnny Frazier, chairman of the Greenville NAACP, was elected convention chairman. The MDC group then moved to elect co-chairmen, although the proposed constitution called for the election of a state president. A confused debate followed, during which the FDP group charged that previous understandings were being broken, that electing officers before the hearing of committee reports or the adoption of the constitution was out of order, and that many delegates driving to the convention would not arrive till the afternoon session...
...Filipino voters last week there was no place to hide. Signs and posters begged them to re-elect "the Congress man with the Golden Heart." Along the highways, motorists were urged, DRIVE CAREFULLY THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY HELP ELECT SERGIO OSMEÑA JR. There was no escape in movie theaters or bookstores, or on TV or even in the courts-political campaigning has taken over the national life in what has become the closest presidential race in 20 years...
...that "the internal affairs of the South Vietnamese people must be settled by the South Vietnamese people themselves in accordance with the program of the National Liberation Front-the Viet Cong's political arm. In other words, as Hanoi sees it, South Viet Nam should be free to elect its own government, provided that the government is Communist...