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...Hugh Carey and New York City Mayor Edward Koch. Piñerua had the services of Clifton White, a former Barry Goldwater aide, and Joseph Napolitan, author of The Election Game and How to Win It, who ran the successful 1973 campaign of outgoing President Carlos Andrés P...
Garth, who speaks little Spanish, relied on two top staffers who spoke the local language, and used two American law students to take his poll surveys for him. Herrera and Piñerua each spent an estimated $8 million for TV time. President Pérez, who naturally had an interest in seeing Piñerua elected, meanwhile managed to get around a law barring presidential involvement in an election by hitting the hustings on what were billed as "administrative tours." His government spent $15 million touting its achievements and otherwise burnishing its image. To critics of that blatant electioneering...
...Republic, Communists used posters to inflame the local population against "the landlords who eat our flesh" and "the traitors who sell China to Japan." Poster polemics reached a new level of sophistication during the Cultural Revolution, when fanatical Red Guardsmen used them to attack "capitalist readers" like Teng Hsiao-p...
...newsman made news as well as reported it: visiting Washington Columnist Robert Novak. One evening while Novak and the Globe and Mail's Fraser were talking to a crowd near the posters, Fraser remarked that his colleague might be granted an interview with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ply following day. The astonished listeners, immediately began to ply Novak Novak questions for the Vice Premier. At the crowd's insistence, Novak said Teng had try to return the following evening to tell them what Teng had said. He failed to do so, pleading another engagement...
...going in there wringing my hands," snapped Chicago School Superintendent Joseph P. Hannon last week as he prepared to face critics on the Illinois Board of Education. Concerned about the persistent separation of races in the city's 512,000-student public school system, third largest in the U.S. (after New York City and Los Angeles), the state board put Chicago's schools on probation in 1976. It will take another hard look at segregation in the system at a public meeting later this month. If the board does not like what it finds, it could move...