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...laws so that the preparation and tallying of votes would be undertaken by P.R.I. agents. Such practices, however, may prove hard to manage. "The events in Chihuahua may pass with no major disturbance," said one P.A.N. official. "But we will have elections for years to come. The government can thwart the popular will two times, three times, even ten times. But sooner or later, the people will explode...
...USFL charges that Porter's seminar was one of many devices used by the NFL unfairly to thwart its fledgling rival...
...offices ransacked, their lives threatened. Hundreds of people have been detained, many of them suspected of collaborating with the enemy in contra-infiltrated areas. Like Reagan, many Nicaraguans and outside observers believe that such repressive measures prove that the Sandinistas are carving out a Marxist-Leninist state designed to thwart all democratic expression...
...Mitterrand. Opposition leaders charged that the new channel would have a pro- Socialist bias and that it was being rushed on the air to beat the March 16 legislative elections, which the Socialists are in danger of losing. Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a leading Mitterrand foe, even tried to thwart the channel's start-up by closing access to the top of the Eiffel Tower, where technicians were about to install an antenna. Government officials stepped in to have it reopened...
...meanwhile, failed in all three attempts to thwart the powerful visitors. McGill's A side pounded Harvard, 17-0, while the B and C sides ran up 4-3 and 18-0 victories...