Word: third
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Even as Bush dismissed the abortion rights debate as unimportant, Virginians were proving him wrong. A CBS news exit poll found that one-third of the Virginia voters considered abortion rights the foremost issue of the campaign. They proved it by electing as governor Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, a pro- choice advocate. They proved it by electing as lieutenant-governor the underdog Donald S. Beyer, Jr., an automobile salesman who ran on a pro-choice platform...
...problem is that academic and media equations of Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa, have become not only acceptable, but even quite fashionable. When in 1975, despite Western condemnation, the UN General Assembly declared Zionism "a form of racism and of racial discrimination," through an Arab State, Third World, and Soviet bloc majority coalition, Israel's very existence became a crime against international law, while ethical notables such as Libya, Iraq and Syria were still deemed "peace-loving." Moreover, through this process of UN moral inversion, Israel and South Africa could now "legitimately" be equated in the meetings...
...Harvard's first series of the third quarter, the Crimson drove 73 yards on seven running plays to go up, 17-0. Two of the plays were a 17-yd. burst through the middle by fullback Art McMahon and a 13-yd. rumble off right guard by Chuck Greene...
...second down, Keys swept around left end, but Harvard safety Bobby Frame came up and made a solo tackle for a 1-yd. loss. On third down, Penn signal-caller Malcolm Glover tried to sneak into the end zone on a keeper, but defensive tackle John Sparks pursued the Penn quarterback and tackled him on the 2-yd. line. Fourth down brought more of the same, with Keys trying to find some room off left tackle and seeing "only a sea of Crimson...
...attempts of Walsh and Today's Independents to make the ballot initiative the central campaign issue may have ended up hurting the referendum's quiet supporters. Sullivan, for years the city's top vote-getter, ran a distant third in this year's campaign...