Word: elected
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Gauger had found it difficult to corner Mulroney for a long conversation, but on the flight back to Ottawa the day after his victory, the Prime Minister-elect granted the interview published with our story. Meanwhile, Associate Editor Jim Kelly flew to Montreal and Quebec to observe the campaign, and met Mulroney and his wife before sitting down to write the cover story. The result, overseen by Senior Editor Donald Morrison, is an analysis of what Canada's change of course means to that nation...
Larry Rivers depicts The Accident in a curiously detached, deadpan manner. The faces on scores of superb photographs are filled with ennui. James Rosenquist's 1960-61 billboard-like painting President Elect portrays John F. Kennedy as metallic, slick and cold as the 1963 Corvette...
Candidates who elect to run PAC-less campaigns, however, are still in a decided minority. Only two members of the Senate and eight Congressmen decline to accept PAC contributions.* No wonder: unless a candidate is personally wealthy or politically invulnerable, the highroad can be a short cut to defeat. Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin of Iowa, for example, takes PAC money even though he has voted repeatedly to limit PAC influence. Says a Harkin aide: "To refuse PAC money would be to lay down your sword when you know your opponent...
Lately, the government has embarked on a new scheme to address the demand for a separate Indian identity. "We want the Miskitos to organize and elect representatives who can tell us their thoughts," explains William Ramirez, the Sandinista commander of the Miskito region. In June the Sandinistas for the first time named a Miskito, Myrna Cunningham, 36, as civilian governor of North Zelaya province, the Indian heartland...
Feminism has scored no more spectacular triumph since women won the right to vote. Even with universal suffrage, American women had enjoyed, until last Thursday, nothing more than the right to elect a man to the White House. With one swift stroke, however, the Democrats have made it possible for women to enter the final phase of their enfranchisement. Win or lose in November, Geraldine Ferraro is now emblematic of the truest, purest facet of the American dream: that every citizen is entitled to an equal chance. In this version of the dream, the idea is that every child...