Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least 46 employees must be working if a vote is to be held, Serna said. He added that the USW believes that the ranch is withholding some names to prevent an election from taking place, as well as denying work to more than 10 employees because of their involvement in the unionization proces...
...Republican Party," Duke declared, needling his G.O.P. critics. An avowed Nazi in his college years, Duke entered presidential primaries in a few states last year as a Democrat but won no delegates. He ran as presidential candidate of the Populist Party and got only 0.05% of the vote. Although he claims to have left the Klan in 1979, his home address serves as the local Klan office. He now heads the National Association for the Advancement of White People from the same location. While he professes to believe in "civil rights for all people," his new organization publishes an anti...
...last week a Texas parole board decided that happy endings are only for movies. By a 2-to-1 vote, the board refused to release Randall Adams, whose plight director Errol Morris publicized in his documentary The Thin Blue Line, which has enjoyed a cultlike popularity since its release last summer. Despite a lower-court recommendation at a hearing last December that Adams be retried, and even though the companion who accused him has all but confessed to the murder, the board concluded that the heinous nature of the crime dictated that Adams should remain in prison...
...Trade Unions building were dark when Boris Yeltsin, 58, Moscow's former Communist Party leader, emerged from a conference room to speak to journalists and admirers waiting in the hall. Yeltsin looked weary but triumphant. "Boris Nikolayevich! How does it feel?" shouted a foreign reporter. "All of Moscow will vote!" Yeltsin beamed. "Can you imagine what that means...
Across the country, lists of candidates were approved after weeks of often stormy preliminary meetings. The sessions became controversial because they included only specially chosen local voters with the power to eliminate candidates before the March 26 vote. "Why should we, 886 people, make a decision for all of Moscow?" asked a delegate at the meeting that nominated Yeltsin. "We need a system that is fully democratic...