Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue is--what do we do to pull people together to turn out that vote?" said King...
...have to reach out to the people based on ideas, based on the direction that you want to move towards. If people saw an alternative to Bush, they'd vote for it. The Dukakis-Bentsen campaign stayed in a grey area far too long. It didn't energize its natural constituency--Blacks, labor, the disadvantaged," Bolling said...
...candidate must talk about what concerns people's hearts--and the Democratic candidate has failed to do this. If people think the candidate doesn't articulate those issues, the people aren't going to vote...
...State President P.W. Botha of South Africa, a big turnout in black townships for the Oct. 26 elections would signal that blacks have accepted his offer of power sharing as an alternative to revolution. So in an effort to get out the black vote, Botha's government has swollen registration lists, declared it illegal to call for a boycott, and banned major black organizations that have opposed the polling...
Foes of apartheid are equally determined to thwart an election they see as hopelessly segregated. Activists have scrawled DON'T VOTE on walls, billboards and traffic signs throughout the black townships. Antiapartheid clergymen and academics have urged blacks to boycott the vote, despite the ban on such appeals. Others have resorted to deadlier tactics: shooting council candidates or fire bombing their cars and damaging meeting halls with mines and hand grenades. Last week, in apparent retaliation, suspected white extremists bombed the headquarters of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which is strongly opposed to apartheid. More violence...