Word: votes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next year before a vote can be held to fill Meluskey's seat. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania politicians have something to ponder. The cause of Meluskey's death: heart failure, possibly triggered, said a Dade County, Fla., medical examiner, by the stress of campaigning...
...some places, liquor laws are being tightened. Montana voters decided that wine could be sold in grocery stores, along with beer, but they also raised the drinking age to 19, though they had dropped it from 19 to 18 in 1975 (reasoning that if young people could vote at that age, they could also be trusted to drink). Explains Tom Mulholland, a state liquor official: "The age for underage kids trying to get served went down. They used to be 16 and 17. Now they...
Nonetheless, the vote was a genuine victory for Premier Begin and his Washington negotiators, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. It was Dayan who had phoned Begin, saying "Let's for once be ahead of the Egyptians. Let us be the first to say yes, and leave Sadat to fight his own way." Begin agreed, and the Cabinet fell into line by a vote...
...crippling strike, guarded his nation's access to continued oil shipments and committed his monetary policy to the new European plan. Andreotti is being sternly tested once again. Already under attack from within his parliamentary coalition and even from fellow Christian Democrats, he will soon face a crucial vote on his new economic program. If he loses, Italy's fragile coalition government, which relies on the Communists for support, could fall...
...vote on the Pandolfi plan draws near. Andreotti has used uncharacteristic rhetoric to spell out the consequences of defeat. Because the government includes "nearly all political persuasions," he says, "if we err, the democratic system itself will be in jeopardy. There will be no democratic opposition for the discontented to turn to." In the end, Andreotti's well-known stubbornness could be the surest safeguard of his power: during his second time as Premier, he suffered 13 consecutive parliamentary defeats before finally agreeing to step down...