Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of his family to go to college. The son of an immigrant worker from Mexico, he says he came to Harvard for the challenge...
Dukakis was defeating the Rev. Jesse Jackson by a margin of 67 percent to 29 percent in New Jersey's primary, and was winning New Mexico by almost as large a margin. He was favored to complete a four-state sweep with victories in Montana and California...
Bush, who has lost ground in the polls since wrapping up the Republican nomination more than a month ago, won the New Jersey and New Mexico primaries unopposed--and had no active competition in the other two states, either. He said the political momentum would swing his way once his campaign brought the issues of peace and prosperity into focus for the voters...
...Mexico, with returns from 21 percent ofthe precincts, it was Dukakis 23,014, or 62percent, to Jackson's 9298 or 25 percent...
...Earlier contests were going to be so inconclusive that Golden State voters, whose primaries always come late in the season, would have unusual influence in choosing both nominees. Like many an '88 scenario, that forecast foundered on the reefs of reality. Californians, along with voters in New Jersey, New Mexico and Montana, will anoint rather than select the nominees next week...