Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captured 92 of the parliament's 237 seats, decisively beating the Islamic Democratic Alliance, its nearest competitor and the relic of Zia, who died in a plane crash three months before the vote. The Alliance won only 55 seats. A surge of ethnic support thrust the fledgling Mohajir Qaumi Movement into the third and pivotal position with 13 seats...
...capital of Tallinn, the local supreme soviet turned down constitutional amendments proposed by Moscow and voiced new demands for sovereignty. Two days later, the Lithuanian supreme soviet raised similar objections, but stopped short of constitutional rebellion. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, to protest the compromise vote...
...Estonia, advocates of increased local autonomy risk a collision with Moscow over the limits of mutual sovereignty. In Armenia, anger continues to rise over the status of the ethnic minority in Azerbaijan. -- Benazir Bhutto wins the vote, but will she get to govern Pakistan? -- P. L. O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declares a Palestinian state in the West Bank...
...earlier this month in a consumer revolt that could roar out of California like a muscle car. By a 51%-to-49% count, the voters approved Proposition 103, which will slash insurance rates to 20% below November 1987 levels. Good drivers will get yet another 20% off. Although the vote covered all types of property and casualty insurance, the auto-premium cuts were the heart of the measure. The most breathless of its proponents expect its impact to rival that of Proposition 13, the 1978 California initiative that set off a coast-to-coast fight against high property taxes...
Massachusetts, another high-premium state, is trying to give drivers a break. A week before the vote in California, Massachusetts legislators approved a reform bill that will slice 16% off the state's tightly controlled auto rates in 1989. Aimed at easing a 27% jump in premiums over the past two years, the measure includes several cost-saving features to placate insurers. Yet such provisions could not halt a continuing exodus that has seen six major firms abandon the state since 1986. Allstate joined their ranks last week, when the Sears subsidiary said it would stop selling policies in Massachusetts...