Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a summit,' " says a White House aide. But the Reaganauts are confident that the Soviets will not ask. "They have shown no interest at all," says the adviser. The Soviets have no desire to do anything that might help re-elect their nemesis. In any case, not enough time remains to agree on an agenda...
...Presbyterians, at a turning point, elect their leader...
When the nearly 700 delegates to the General Assembly of the 3.1 million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) gathered in Phoenix last week to elect a leader, many observers looked upon the outcome as foreordained. Well before the voting began, stolid, shrewd William P. Thompson, 65, a lawyer from Wichita, Kans., sometimes regarded as the pope of the Presbyterians, was the odds-on favorite for the post of Stated Clerk (chief administrator). But on the fourth round of voting, Dark Horse James E. Andrews, 55, a droll, self-deprecating minister reared in Whittenburg, Texas, emerged in an astonishing upset...
...make politics a crusade, we can put a stop to this insane, suicidal nuclear arms race which is destroying our economy and terrifying our children. When we make politics a crusade, we can make the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution the law of the land. We can elect a new generation of political leaders committed to creating a society free from race and sex discrimination...
Hart's last gasp may be to join forces with Jesse Jackson against Mondale. In several states, Hart and Jackson operatives are cooperating to elect more delegates and gain seats on the credentials and rules committees at the convention, where they can press charges that Mondale manipulated or evaded party rules to garner more than his fan" share of delegates...