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...meeting on Sunday was a perfect example. Although Hillson, Berman, Roberts, Eighth District Democrat Carla Johnston, and several other Boston activists were present, this is the only account of the event to appear in the nonpartisan press...
...answer was not long in coming. By 2 p.m. on voting day, Colude, a nonpartisan civic group that monitored the election, reported that P.A.N. poll watchers had been thrown out of 33 polling stations and supplanted by impostors who beat them to the job in 21 others. Observers also said that ballot boxes had been stuffed with P.R.I. votes in 54 districts and stolen in four others. Hardly had the polls closed when the ruling party announced a sweeping victory in all but one of 67 contested municipalities. "What can you say?" said one Reagan Administration official of the blatant...
...government has already removed 71 of the 74 governors and 52 of the 60 city mayors who belong to Marcos' party. But in discharging them so peremptorily, the President has sparked complaints that she is indulging a Marcos-like self-interest. "I thought she was going to be a nonpartisan President," grumbles Richard Gordon, the dynamic young mayor of Olangapo, who was replaced by an Aquino appointee. "But it's still personality politics that prevails here...
...Minister Margaret Thatcher, who has been portrayed chatting with Adolf Hitler on immigration policies, saw the satire once and decided that she had seen enough. Many critics have complained that the show's cynicism is too easy and its script sophomoric. Almost everyone, however, concedes that the japery is nonpartisan. The House of Commons actually has a videotape of the show delivered each week...
...nonpartisan comments of U.S. Attorney William Weld--a Republican--on Saturday may have all but eliminated Republican Ed-ward F. Harrington as a serious challenger for the Attorney General's Office, narrowing the race to the two leading Democratic candidates, according to political experts...