Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The aspirants will run for the posts of five delegates and three alternates in an election on Thursday, April 14. The winners will get a trip to the NSA assembly at the University of Illinois this summer and will work during the year on various projects such as purchase-cards...
In some backwoods areas of Colombia, arguments usually end in a draw-of guns or machetes. During election campaigns, such bloody incidents have been used by politicos to incite violence on a national scale. As their hottest congressional campaign in years moved into high gear last week, sober Colombians were...
But President Ospina was more worried about the state of his nation than the chances of his party. While the parties' jefes (leaders) averted their eyes, he sternly gave them an ultimatum: unless they took it upon themselves to quiet things down, the government would declare a state of...
After mulling over this prospect for two days, the bitter rivals got together. Emerging from the Palacio like a couple of spanked schoolboys, Jefes Carlos Lleras Restrepo of the Liberals and Guillermo León Valencia of the Conservatives pledged support to the government's peace program. As a...
The proposed charter would base membership in the Union Committee on election by "proctoral units" of about 50 men, instead of the current system of appointment by the proctors and Dean's Office and has raised considerable dispute.