Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Election officials had no results early today. They said they were having computer problems and suspended counting this morning. Guerrilla sabotage of electric power and telephone lines had hampered vote collection from provincial polling places...
...SALVADOR, El Salvador--The rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance yesterday claimed victory over the governing centrists in a presidential vote leftist rebels tried to thwart with attacks launched across the country...
Presidential candidate Alfredo Cristiani, a wealthy coffee grower, told reporters that his party's unofficial count showed him leading with 54 percent of Sunday's vote with about 75 percent of the ballots counted...
...biggest happening, and the worst for Bush, was the Senate's rejection of former Senator John Tower for Secretary of Defense by a vote of 53 to 47. It marked the first time in 30 years that the full Senate had spurned a President's Cabinet choice, and was a clear indication of which way the power is flowing along Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush moved swiftly to stanch the bleeding by replacing Tower with Congressman Richard Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who served as White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford. Cheney is expected to win quick FBI clearance and Senate...
Still, ad hoc decisions can lead to posthaste confusion, as quickly became apparent on Capitol Hill. When the Tower nomination appeared to be doomed, White House counsel Boyden Gray, a longtime Bush favorite who often acts independently of others on the staff, pressed for postponement of a vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee. But at the same time, White House lobbyists were pressing for an early vote...