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...bundle of cash have propelled him to the fore in a mud-spattered primary season. Riding a nearly 2-to-1 lead over his nearest rival, Texas Railroad Commissioner Kent Hance, into this week's G.O.P. election, he seemed a good bet to win outright, avoiding a runoff. One recent poll shows him going on to beat handily any candidate the Democrats nominate...
Gorbachev's reach for such extraordinary powers prompted Lithuanian leaders to advance to March 4 runoff elections in 20 of the 51 undecided districts. That will enable them to convene the new Lithuanian Supreme Soviet before Gorbachev is officially invested with his new powers at a Congress of People's Deputies session scheduled to begin on March 12. Reflecting on the possible threat of martial law, Cekuolis said, "We want to keep one jump ahead of Moscow." The republic's president and Communist Party chief, Algirdas Brazauskas, called on Moscow to begin independence negotiations "in the near future" to establish...
...beating "Mr. Texas" was not burden enough, L.B.J. developed a kidney stone. Daily he made speeches and shook hands and then collapsed in a car in agony. Eventually the stone was removed, and he was off again, against the advice of doctors. The suffering paid off: in the primary runoff, it was Stevenson vs. Johnson...
...compared himself with Jimmy Carter. The similarities do not go far: like Carter, he ran against the federal government, tilting at its waste and mismanagement, but when it came to down-and-dirty campaigning, he seemed more like Richard Nixon. The combination worked: last week, after a heated runoff election, Fernando Collor de Mello, 40, won 43% of the vote, vs. his leftist opponent's 38%, to emerge as Brazil's first popularly elected President in 29 years. Scheduled to take office in Brasilia on March 15 to serve a five-year term, the conservative politician will be the youngest...
Consensus may be difficult to attain after the polarized election campaign. ; The runoff contest narrowed the 21-candidate field to Collor and a gritty dark-horse opponent, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, a union leader and former industrial lathe operator who heads the leftist Workers' Party. Lula pounded away at populist themes -- he warned Collor that his landholdings would be subject to agrarian reform -- and outpointed the young conservative in the first of two televised debates. Toward the campaign's close, Collor took the low road, airing campaign spots that featured the married Lula's former lover...