Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even care. It seemed to me, at the time, that if "he" (it was weeks before my tongue could from his name) must die no one deserved to live, not even my own child. I thought, as I lay on my bed listening to the rude Mississippi accents around me, that with any luck I could lose myself. I do not recall wanting very much to live...
Other vulnerable Republican Senators include Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who, like Helms and Jepsen, has trailed his Democratic challenger in polls, Gordon J. Humphrey of New Hampshire, and Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota. Observers say Walter F. Mondale, also from Minnesota, could play a role in Boschwitz's fate, if he lands the Democratic presidential nomination. Mondale's ticket would rouse a strong Democratic turnout at the Minnesota polls in November...
...reverse their 1980 Josses if they can bring that percentage up to 57 or 58. Especially important in such calculations are a ream of electoral votes. Thirteen states that Reagan carried in 1980 have unregistered voters exceeding Reagan's respective margins of victory there, including Massachusetts, New York, and Mississippi...
...provisions of the Voting Rights Act, which was designed to eliminate discriminatory registration rules, many states continue to prohibit postcard and door-to-door registration--a move which disproportionately affects poor and minority voters. Some states still require voters to register and both municipal and county seats; in Mississippi, citizens may have to travel 70 miles to register, and in North Carolina's Graham County, a citizen can only register on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons...
...common goal: they want to make certain that Gerald Gallego will die. A jury in California's Sacramento County last May convicted Gallego, 37, a former truck driver, of kidnaping a college couple, raping the woman and then killing both students. Gallego, whose father Gerald was executed in Mississippi in 1955 after a murder conviction, was sentenced to die. Says James Morris, the chief prosecutor: "He's a chip off the old block...