Word: electioneered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira provoked this Circus Maximus by taking a gamble--one most observers thought he would win easily. He dissolved Japan's parliament, the Diet, in September, and called for a new election less than a year after his surprise victory in the last party election. Nothing recent...
Not only do the personalities fascinate him, but the practice of politics evokes some of his best writing and worst predictions. Strout makes no attempt to hide his choice in each contest, yet he still seems to revel in a good dogfight. The election between Kennedy, whom he loved, and...
Michael J.W. Rennock '81, a member of the Eliot House Committee, which Monday decided to hold a House referendum on whether to continue the boycott, said yesterday other election procedures may bury the boycott issue.
Internally, the election was intended as a "pressure valve" to relieve domestic tensions Maddox said. Tensions recently surfaced during the trial of a political dissident, he added.
The "non-communist" election winners are not "anti-communist" but simply not members of the CCP, Hofheinz said. Only about 4 per cent of China's population are actual party memebrs, he added.