Word: election
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...This is not the time for tears. It is the time for work." So declared Amin Gemayel, 40, last week as he addressed the members of the Lebanese Parliament, who had just elected him by a vote of 77 to 0 to a six-year term as President of their fragmented country. Gemayel spoke while standing beneath a black-draped portrait of his brother Bashir Gemayel, 34, who was killed by a bomb blast on Sept. 14, nine days before he was to have assumed the presidency. In that somber setting the new President-elect said: "I pledge to shoulder...
...borders; as it turned out, the army pushed deep into Lebanon and laid siege to Beirut. Next Israel pledged not to occupy West Beirut if U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib could arrange an evacuation of the P.L.O. fighters holed up there; after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, the Israelis went into West Beirut on the pretext of preventing disorder. Finally, Americans charged that Ambassador to Washington Moshe Arens assured them on Begin's behalf that the Israelis would seize only "a few" strategic points in West Beirut. Instead, they took over the whole Muslim section...
Deukmejian, with fund-raising assists from President Reagan and Gerald Ford, is spending about $7.5 million on his election effort. This is about the same as Bradley's budget, but the Republican needs to compensate for his late-starting campaign: he unwisely stayed off the campaign trail all summer after defeating Lieutenant Governor Mike Curb in the June primary. One imponderable is whether California, which is still largely conservative on race, will be willing to elect a black Governor. The betting is that Bradley's steady performance during his nine years as mayor of Los Angeles has largely...
...more beautiful people. The longtime head of Diners Club and grandson of the founder of Bloomingdale's department store, he was best known in recent years for his friendship with Ronald Reagan. He was one of a small group of intimates who met the day after the 1980 election to advise the President-elect on forming a new Administration. Later he served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Betsy, his wife of 35 years, is the daughter of a socially prominent Los Angeles family and one of Nancy Reagan's closest friends. An inveterate giver...
Strauss's call for early elections sent shivers of fear through the Free Democrats. Genscher had repeatedly stressed to Kohl that he needed time to repair the damage to his party's popularity and that a rush to new elections could prove fatal. The respected Allensbach Institute produced a snap poll last week showing that popular support for the Free Democrats had dropped to 2.3%, a precipitous decline from the 10.6% they won in the 1980 national elections. According to the West German constitution, a party must get at least 5% of the vote to be represented...