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...routine by-election in Germiston, a working-class suburb of Johannesburg, should have been a shoo-in for Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's National Party. Instead, Flip van der Walt, 63, barely won, carrying the district by a mere 308 of the 9,111 ballots cast. The vote reflects deep, corrosive divisions among South African whites over the country's future direction. The Rand Daily Mail judged the outcome the nation's "biggest electoral shock since 1948," when the National Party swept to power under the banner of white supremacy...
...what I'm going to do," insisted Hartnett. Then, with less than a minute to go, the Congressman stood up amid the hubbub on the floor. Hartnett gazed up at his wife in the spectator's gallery. He gave a thumbs-up sign, shrugged and pretended to flip a coin...
...Flying Vazquezes achieve an astounding four flip-flops...
...fatal reliance on contradictory economic policies came to a head under Jimmy Carter, whom White rightly chastises for flip-flopping between inconsistent monetary and fiscal approaches as the previous month's initiatives seemed to have failed. White concludes that candidate Reagan's devotion through 1980 to a single supply side program, no matter what its theoretical flaws, won him support from an electorate that craved a sense of executive leadership and foresight. The author also credits Reagan for seizing on the issue of prices long before any of his competitors in either party. He pinpoints the former California governor...
...York hospital in her sick-bed smock to join the rally. "To me," she said, "it's important to be here because the money spent on bombs could be spent on finding a cure for Addison's disease," for which Wedel is being treated. Some placards were flip. One beery young man carried a sign that said DON'T BOMB US, WE'RE ALREADY BOMBED and on another youth's poster was the request REAGAN-GIVE ME A CHANCE TO REACH YOUR AGE. Some would-be ralliers were absent: the U.S. Government refused...