Word: membered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 6 meeting, the four-member commission approved a compromise wording for the measure. But at a later meeting in August, Republican Commissioner Artis B. Spear, who had originally voted for the compromise, moved to reconsider the decision...
Edward J. Samp, the Republican who chairs the four-member Election Commission, says he opposed the wording at the July meeting because he believed it would mislead voters...
...three vacancies leave the race wide open. The good-government Cambridge Civic Association--which has commanded a four-member minority on the council since the early 1970s--and other liberal groups could make up a progressive majority on the council come next November. But given the edge PR seems to give incumbents, the CCA is facing an uphill battle...
Meanwhile, one candidate says he is not concerned by the unusual nature of this year's election. For Councillor Walter J. Sullivan, the longest serving member after Vellucci, the 1989 council race is just like any other. And he's been the city's top vote-getter in nearly every election...
...certain, though, that Estonia has lost the fight. The Presidium simply sent the electoral law back to the Estonian parliament for review. And in a semi-bow to Baltic sensibilities, Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev confirmed that the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pacts secretly assigned the three states to Moscow's sphere of influence on the eve of World War II. But he denied this had any bearing on the status of the republics, which Moscow annexed in 1940 as members of the U.S.S.R...