Word: serb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state presidency of eight regional and presumably equal members, who are supposed to rotate as chairmen each year. Tito also set up a companion 24-member system for the party Presidium, the highest body of the Yugoslav League of Communists. Its chairmanship is currently occupied by Doronjski, a Serb from Vojvodina province, whose term runs until October...
...than half of the huge G.O.P. primary vote. Reagan, as he had in Illinois, appealed to them with unexpected effectiveness. Like Kennedy, he campaigned for only two days in Wisconsin, but his advancemen turned out big crowds. He became the first G.O.P. presidential candidate in memory to appear at Serb Hall in Milwaukee, a hallowed rallying place for ethnic Democrats, and wowed a beer-drinking, blue-collar crowd with simplistic conservative appeals. He pledged to "whack away at the fat, extravagant Government in Washington." Listeners cried, "Give 'em hell, Ronnie...