Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...needs the help. His Iowa defeat showed an organization that was not properly prepared. Kennedy has staked his comeback on a victory in the New Hampshire primary. He has a large and hardworking team there, but it might not be enough. In New Hampshire Carter has had an organized group led by J. Chris Brown (the head of Carter's successful '76 effort) working since last summer. He has the support of Governor Hugh Gallen and a majority of the state legislators. He has already pumped Federal grants into the state for highway and railway improvements. In addition, there...
Some showed up to woo votes--state Senate candidate George Bachrach bounced from group to group introducing himself. And others were there to shoot the political breeze that is the lifeblood of many Cantabrigians...
...Anytime you set out free food in Cambridge, you can draw a group like this," city councilor David Sullivan added...
...radicals demanding reductions in high school tuition were holding some 1,500 hostages in his ministry. And on a tree-lined avenue across town, Madrid's Ambassador Victor Sánchez-Mesas and 14 others were being held captive in the Spanish embassy by members of a leftist group. The invaders demanded that El Salvador's civilian-military regime release 21 political prisoners...
...Guatemala, where a police attack on the occupied Spanish embassy resulted in 39 deaths, Salvadoran authorities kept their security forces away from the scene. Right-wing terrorists showed no such restraint: shortly after the embassy seizure, a leftist doctor was gunned down at his clinic; members of an ultraconservative group threatened to execute three kidnaped Communist leaders and burn down the embassy if the occupiers did not withdraw within 24 hours. Before that deadline was reached, the militants at the embassy freed seven of their hostages in exchange for the government's release of seven political prisoners. The rightists...