Word: election
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time of sharply escalating racial unrest, who is the most popular South African leader among the country's white minority? State President P.W. Botha, who is pushing for limited reforms? Archbishop-elect Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose cries for change have been tempered by condemnations of violence? Gavin Relly, the chairman of the giant Anglo- American Corp., who last year led a delegation of white businessmen to Lusaka, Zambia, for an unprecedented meeting with the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.)? According to a recent poll, that distinction | belongs to none of the above...
...candidates according to their position on the abortion question, and the IRS has done nothing to enforce the tax code against the Catholic Church," charges ARM Lawyer Marshall Beil. Among the transgressions cited by ARM: a 1980 letter read from 410 pulpits in Boston implicitly urging congregations not to elect Barney Frank a Congressman; a 1980 editorial in a Catholic newspaper in San Antonio (headline: TO THE IRS --NUTS!!!) that praised Ronald Reagan for his antiabortion stand; and John Cardinal O'Connor's public disputes with Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro over her stand on abortion. Beil contends that...
Michigan's convoluted convention contraption moves into high gear on May 27, the deadline for filing petitions to run in the 5,904 precinct elections to be held in early August. Those selected will meet at district conventions in January 1988 to elect delegates to a state convention, and they in turn will choose the delegates who will go on to the national convention. Michigan's will be the first Republican delegates chosen, and that may help the state steal some of the thunder from the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. But as former Governor George Romney, 78, notes...
...promise came at a private meeting among Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51, President-Elect Samuel C. Butler '51, and 10 representatives of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC...
...statistics reveal an image contrary to the one your sloppy journalist painted, in which Wellesley is merely a place to "find girlfriends," and later underscored with freshman Slawson's comment, "The only reason to come to Wellesley is to socialize." In fact, a large number of Wellesley's students elect to seek weekend entertainment off campus because the serious acdemic environment prevails seven days a week...