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...North Carolina, the Senate race in Illinois has alienated many voters. Recent polls reveal that each candidate's unfavorable rating has increased. Polls also show that the race is a virtual toss-up. Most recently, the Chicago Tribune gave Percy a statistically insignificant 42-40 per cent edge, with many voters still undecided. Much will depend on Reagan's election day performance in Illinois; a recent CBS News poll there has the President ahead by 16 points...
...months of acrimonious campaigning, the U.S.-backed process to choose that battered country's first freely elected President in 50 years drew to an end late last week. As up to 1.7 million voters prepared to trek to the polls, the seven-man race was still considered a toss-up between the controversial front runners, José Napoleón Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democratic Party (P.D.C.), and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as ARENA. There was a good chance that neither candidate would win the outright majority required for election...
...control traffic seems to be waning everywhere. In Los Angeles, red-light running has become perhaps the city's most common traffic violation. In New York City, going through an intersection is like Russian roulette. Admits Police Commissioner Robert J. McGuire: "Today it's a 50-50 toss-up as to whether people will stop for a red light." Meanwhile, his own police largely ignore the lawbreaking...
...toss-up in Maine doesn't bode well to Democratic hopes of a big anti-Reagan turnaround in today's voting. It ominous indeed that a solid moderate like Mitchell with a popular record on arms control and the environment--not to mention a volunteer force of 3,000 strong--isn't pulling away from a staunch Reaganite like Emery, who hasn't even run a very effective campaign. Mitchell has an even shot at pulling it out, but Democratic effort to capitalize on the country's economic travail could very well fail to Maine, where many people seem still...
What happened? "There were a lot of complaints that officials were not performing the toss-up technique very well," Bruce Howard of the NCAA explains. Not only that, adds NCAA rules committee secretary Ed Steitz, "some people felt the jump ball played right into the hands of the teams with seven footers, the 7-foot-2 players...