Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Koch's lead grew to ten points last week over the other Democrat who made it into the primary runoff, New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. That surprisingly large plurality-78,000 out of 786,000 votes cast-made Koch New York's unofficial mayor-elect, though he must still get through a four-way general election. TIME Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett covered Koch's journey from obscurity to fame-and to the precipice of New York's intimidating problems. Barrett's report...
...There's no question that the right is I getting increasingly successful on Capitol Hill," says Vicki Otten, legislative representative of the Americans for Democratic Action. She feels that the highly liberal freshmen elected in 1976 have hunkered down in a hurry. "Their mail is running 10 to 1, 100 to 1, against busing, abortion, gay rights. It's phenomenal. They believe that life-style issues will re-elect them or defeat them, and so they're voting with the antis...
...charges, and his current troubles can be traced back to that fateful meeting in the waning days of the summer of '70. Helms left the White House in the late afternoon with very precise orders from the President: to take any measure short of assassination to stop Chilean president-elect Salvador Allende from taking office later that year, a plot that took on the code name of "Track II." A team player in the best Nixonesque sense of the word, Helms instructed CIA operatives to contact the most powerful elements in the Chilean Right that fall, hoping to pressure Allende...
...President Jeb Stuart Magruder.) Says Ziegler: "I have had friends call me about the portrayal of Ferris, who comes across as a particularly insipid character. I'm comfortable in my own mind that I'm not that character." Maurice Stans, chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President, calls the whole production "so far from the actual life in Washington that it can only harm the country by making people think that this is a true picture of the capital...
Number one player, junior Sally Roberts from Greenwich, Conn., heads the field of returning starters, which includes Captain-elect Katie Ditzler (number three last year), Terry Clarke, injury-prone Diana Olney, Beth Craig and Patty Wen. J.V. standouts Perry Heffelfinger, Abby Greenbaum and Liz Livingstone saw occasional varsity court time last season, and should be ready to make the permanent jump this year...