Word: rev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strategists at several "second-tier" campaigns claim that most media polls are limited and misleading. The surveys are targeted toward "likely" voters or caucus-goers--an unscientific designation based on party affiliation and previous voting history. According to Diane Weiland, press secretary to Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign, "A lot of people are new and will not have voted before and therefore won't show up on traditional polls." Jackson considers registering new voters an important objective in his campaign...
...caucuses showed Rep. Gephardt of Missouri ahead of Massachusetts Gov. Dukakis, 27 percent to 24 percent. The poll, released yesterday, showed Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois with 15 percent, followed by former Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado with 13 percent and former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt and the Rev. Jesse Jackson with 6 percent each. Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee failed to register significant support, and 9 percent were undecided...
While most candidates ask their volunteers to concentrate on winning votes, the Rev. Jesse Jackson's supporters at Harvard and nationwide have been an exception. The Jackson workers instead try to register new voters. Jackson's Massachusetts campus coordinator H. Edward Young Jr. '89 says volunteers at the College will be recruiting voters in Cambridge. "Jackson keeps pushing that Americans need to vote," Young says. He adds that Jackson's campaign registered 3 million voters in 1984 and hopes to beat that record this year...
...humanitarian mission in Beirut to free two American captives, no group has ever claimed responsibility. Newspaper reports said Waite and other Western hostages were handed over to Iranian Revolutionary Guards earlier this year, but the accounts could not be verified. Waite's boss, Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, recently confirmed that the church paid nearly $22,000 to two men who claimed that they could arrange a meeting with representatives of Waite's captors. The negotiations never came about...
...adult South Africans," which by implication assumes eventual black rule. But Perkins' article was nonetheless viewed by some observers as a breakthrough, if only in his reference to the word majority, a term usually shunned in deference to white fears of one day being overwhelmed by blacks. Said the Rev. Allan Boesak, a leading opponent of apartheid: "No one in his position has said that for years." On the other hand, Pretoria declared its "grave dissatisfaction" with the Perkins piece...