Word: newes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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November 25 at Duke7:30 p.m. 28 at New Hampshire...
...fact that Americans are notoriously unreliable when answering questions related to race was dramatically evident in the Virginia and New York City elections. Although several surveys in the final fortnight gave Wilder and David Dinkins comfortable leads (as high as 15 points for Wilder and 18 points for Dinkins), both contests turned out to be squeakers...
...phenomenon is not new: seven years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley seemed to be leading in California's gubernatorial election -- until the ballots were counted and he lost by less than a point. Some whites were reluctant to admit to pollsters that they planned to vote against a black...
With Hindus accounting for 83% of India's 833 million people, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi permitted the militants to lay the foundation stone for the new temple last week. The Hindu extremists are the vanguard of a growing movement led by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Its aim: to establish a Hindu Rashtra -- Hindu Nation...
...against South Africa for 23 years, is expected to win a majority of the 72 seats in the National Assembly, but the key question will be the size of its victory. If SWAPO gains two-thirds of the seats, it will be able to frame the country's new constitution on its own terms. But observers believed the voting procedures would limit SWAPO's prospects. Example: since about half the voters were illiterate, many were likely to be confused by the fact that nine of the ten contending parties had ballot symbols that were similar to SWAPO's clenched fist...