Word: elected
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Michelman said that NARAL's goals for 1992 are to "move towards a veto-proof Congress and elect a prochoice President...
...decided not to co-sponsor a major abortion-rights march on Washington in April. The march, being mounted by the National Organization for Women and other groups, may feature such attention-getting favorites as chaining oneself to the White House fence. The N.W.P.C., which focuses on helping get women elected to public office, feels that marches and civil disobedience are a waste of its resources. Says spokeswoman Pat Reilly: "For what it would cost us to participate in this march, we can elect several women...
...world's wealthiest woman shows up at the impoverished village of her birth and offers improvements beyond imagination, plus a fortune for each man, woman and child. There is one catch: the townspeople must murder their popular mayor-elect. In his youth he seduced and abandoned a poor girl so he could marry a little money. Now old and rich, she wants vengeance. She believes everyone has a price, and she is right. Friedrich Durrenmatt's morality play THE VISIT seemed shockingly cynical when the Lunts brought it to Broadway in the '50s. In a sad measure of the disillusioning...
...year civil war. A U.N. mission is organizing a referendum for the people of the Western Sahara to determine whether they want to be independent or part of Morocco. And an advance team is preparing to take over the administration of an entire country, Cambodia, until it can elect a new government in 1993. Meanwhile, the U.N. continues to grapple with a host of crises that know no borders: drug trafficking, global warming, the pollution of the oceans and waterways, overpopulation and famine...
...officials, who had scheduled this week'smeeting to elect new officers, acknowledged thatthe social life for women on campus needed to beimproved but said that establishing exclusiveclubs is not the answer...