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Today's vote will narrow to two a field of eight candidates, with the survivors meeting in a November run-off. A ninth contender, Robert R. Kiley, withdrew from the race last month, but his name will appear on the ballot...
...political maturity in the 1982 elections which is crucial to the successful evolution of inclusive-pluralistic values in American democracy. In Alabama, the customary political patterns were modified when George Wallace, seeking a political comeback, gained a crucial 30 percent of the Black primary vote which assured him a run-off where he then garnered a whopping 90 percent of the Black vote (against the advice of civil rights leaders like Coretta Scott King), guaranteeing his election Wallace, in victory, swiftly rewarded Alabama's Blacks for their crucial support, appointing two Blacks to his Cabinet and supported the appointment...
Colantuono narrowly defeated Rosemarie A. Sabatino '84 in a second run-off between the two, following an initial...
...million residents of Dade County (Miami and environs), 39% are Hispanic (vs. 44% white and 17% black). It is estimated that by 1985 the Latins will become a majority in Dade, outnumbering non-Latin whites 43% to 42%. The Latin influence is so strong that the mayoral run-off election in Miami last week was a hard-fought battle between two Hispanics, Puerto Rican-born Incumbent Maurice Ferré and Challenger Manolo Reboso, a Cuban-born former city commissioner. Ferré was re-elected for a fifth two-year term...
...also elected Eve M. Troutt '83 program director of the Afro-American Cultural Center. Mark Venson '83 and Vada Hill '82 tied for director of the center. A run-off election will be held next week...