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...last pre-election polls had given the combined left a substantial lead over the center-right parties. But it was far from clear whether a first-round victory would foreshadow a leftist triumph in the crucial second-round ballot next Sunday. Much would depend on whether the feuding Socialists and Communists could patch up their differences and agree to support each other in the Sunday runoff. If the left were to have any chance of winning, each of the two parties would have to withdraw its candidate in districts where the other's candidate had won in the first...
...Stopped," as the individual players filtered through the doors Soon the song changed to "We Don't Give a Damn About Digger, Digger Digger Phelps (three times), We're from D-U-K-E, Duke." As expected, Notre Dame will be Duke's first-round opponent next weekend in St. Louis...
...other first-round matches, Yvonne Vermaak defeated Kate Latham, 6-1, 6-3 and Florenza Mihai beat Katja Ebbinghaus...
...place De Gaulle introduced the country's unusual two-round electoral system. Basically the system is designed to winnow out fringe-party candidates in the first-round vote, so that only larger parties survive for the second round...
...first-round pairings...