Word: elections
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...will quit his job in Moscow's construction ministry and work to organize a bloc of like-minded members of the Congress of People's Deputies. "They will create pressure and strengthen their voice so it will be heard," he said after his victory. They will also, he hopes, elect him to the Supreme Soviet...
Residents turned out in record numbers to re-elect board members favoring the project to the Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Service (NHS), despite opposition from some community activists who say Harvard is giving the group the land in exchange for political favors...
Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and Commissioner-elect A. Bartlett Giamatti revealed in a statement Monday that Rose is under investigation for alleged charges of gambling...
...Corollary to number nine: commissioner-elect of major league baseball...
...accord is carried out, it will mark the first time a Communist government has voluntarily ceded a major share of power to the opposition. Not only would Solidarity and other opposition groups be free to compete for seats in the 98-member senate, but there would also be liberalized elections to the Sejm in which non-Communists could win up to 35% of the 460 seats. The two chambers would then elect the President. Details of the pact will not be unveiled until April 3, but both sides have already agreed to June parliamentary elections...