Word: third
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...Philadelphia, the campaign to amend the city charter to permit Mayor Frank Rizzo to seek a third term also rebounded against Flaherty. Democrat Rizzo, whose campaign had strong anti-black overtones, angered many Philadelphians. They voted 2-to-l against the mayor and in the process failed to give Flaherty the necessary margin to offset Thornburgh's advantage elsewhere. The Republican victory in the gubernatorial race is important, since it gives control of a populous Eastern state...
...decades as a citadel of liberalism, the state unexpectedly ousted Bob Straub, 58, a Democrat, and voted in Republican Victor Atiyeh, 55, a conservative state senator. But Oregon's voters were as inconsistent as those elsewhere. They re-elected Mark Hatfield, a perennially popular G.O.P. liberal, to a third term in the Senate...
Edward Brooke, 59, the only black ever popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, was regarded at first as a shoo-in when he sought a third term. But last week the Massachusetts liberal Republican lost his seat to Democratic Congressman Paul Tsongas...
Robert Griffin, 55, to his dismay, bucked the voting trend. Michigan's G.O.P. Senator was one of the nation's few conservative incumbents to be defeated by a liberal. In his bid for a third Senate term, he lost (47% to 53%) to Democrat Carl Levin, 44, the former president of Detroit's city council...
Those irreconcilable views on the destiny of the Holy City point to the difficulties that lie ahead in finding a solution to the most difficult of all Middle East problems. To the 100,000 Arabs of East Jerusalem?indeed, to Arabs everywhere?Jerusalem is the third-ranking of Islam's holy places (after Mecca and Medina) and the obvious capital of any Palestinian entity set up on the West Bank. Says Anwar Khatib, former governor of East Jerusalem under Jordanian rule: "Without safeguarding Arab sovereignty over East Jerusalem, all other proposals will not stand...