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...senior at Radcliffe I would like to protest the present system of RGA elections. Each year for four years I have tried to cope with a slate of candidates completely unknown to me, in elections where there were either no significant issues, or where the candidates did not differ appreciably on those that existed. The small amount of campaign material put out by those in the running has not been adequate to form prejudices (except on the size of the posters), much less intelligent judgements. It would seem to me more sensible and effective if RGA officers were...
...announced that if it won a majority of the 64 assembly seats, it would declare the colonel to be Honduras' constitutional President. To provide a semblance of opposition, López permitted the deposed Villeda Morales to return from exile in Costa Rica and run a full slate of Liberal Party candidates. That was largely window dressing. Opposition leaders complained that army troops went around arresting key Liberal organizers and lifting the identity cards of thousands of Liberal Party members...
...Abel. To impress Roman Catholic members, Abel supporters spread reminders that Catholic McDonald had been divorced. The McDonald camp turned out a million hard-hat stickers emblazoned with the inspired slogan ALL THE WAY WITH DAVID J. Abel's handlers issued buttons in praise of his entire slate: CUT OUT THE BALONEY, VOTE FOR ABEL, BURKE, MOLONY...
...play with so little subtlety--as far as I'm concerned so little truth--perhaps the best the minor actors can do is make their characters interesting. But David Dunton, as Sir Hugo Slate, is only conventionally stuffy. And Johanna Madden, as Mary Dean, is more cheaply attractive, more easily written off, than necessary...
Purpose of the confab, Wagner said, was to settle the party dispute over the majority leadership of the state legislature, taken over by the Democrats in last year's election. In that fight, one slate is backed by Wagner, who was represented at the meeting by Jones, Weinstein and O'Rourke; the other is supported by an anti-Wagner coalition including McKeon, English, Palmer and Crotty, and attaching itself to the political star of Freshman U.S. Senator Bobby Kennedy...