Word: unseats
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SEATTLE: After his landslide election to the National Rifle Association board, Charlton Heston is launching a crusade to unseat Neal Knox, the NRA's controversial first vice president, in elections Tuesday. Heston hopes to counter Knox, a longtime NRA member who is working to wrest control of the group from 56-year-old president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre...
Malone began working for Shamie in 1982 when the millionaire unsuccessfully tried to unseat U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.). In 1984, Malone was made campaign manager of Shamie's again unsuccessful campaign against U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass...
There is even the beginning of grass-roots democracy. With little fanfare or publicity, peasants in villages across China are choosing local leaders by secret ballot from a slate of candidates that may include not only Communist Party members but also individuals with no affiliation. The farmers can unseat the bums who mismanaged the local electrification project or the crooks who pocketed irrigation fees and elect the "capable people" of their choice. By 2000, all of China's more than 1 million villages will operate under the system. Some say these local elections are diluting the Communist Party's power...
...chorus of Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans have told the United States that the days of exploding cigars are over--if we are ever to unseat Castro, these nations say, we must make economic love, not war. They are right to point out the discrepancy which exists in U.S. trade policy, wrong to criticize the U.S. government's stalwart position on Cuba. Conscience calls upon the United States to continue to oppose Cuba for depriving its citizens of free expression, even if the price is standing alone among the nations of the world...
...with History. And so she was pleased last Tuesday when the phone rang and it was Clinton on the line. They talked for a while. He asked about the health of her friend Czech President Vaclav Havel, who has lung cancer. Clinton mused about the messy U.S. effort to unseat Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Then there came a pregnant pause. And then he thanked her and hung...