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MASSACHUSETTS' PAUL TSONGAS. He campaigned on the slogan "This Democrat can make a big difference in Congress." Today, a half-year into his term, Tsongas, 34, is hard pressed to pinpoint what he has been able to do that has made any real difference to anyone. He admits: "This has been a manic-depressive six months...
...must get women to focus, not on national candidates, but on replacing those legislators who have previously noted no. Where there is an apparent pattern of defeats in State Senate races we must concentrate our energies on electing women who will be active supporters of the measure Our slogan is. "Women are supposed to clean house. We must also clean the Senate...
...year ahead of schedule, she called for a general election, then campaigned on the populist Hindi slogan Garibi hatao ("Abolish poverty"). The result: the New Congress Party won two-thirds of the seats in the Lok Sabha, or lower house of the Parliament...
...also criticized for no longer sensing or seeming to care about the national mood. Along with the Vatican, the party was badly embarrassed last year in opposing a divorce law that Italians resoundingly supported in a national referendum. The Socialists effectively summed up broad general feeling in a campaign slogan: "The country has changed but the power...
With all sides talking about the need for rinnovamento (renewal), the Christian Democrats admitted some shortcomings in a slogan of their own: "Thirty years of liberty-some good, some not so good-but all of them in liberty." Party Leader Fanfani made 200 campaign appearances, pledging his party's protection for "the Italian democratic system against ambushes of any sort." He regularly reviewed the ledger of Communist duplicity: "Twenty years ago in Hungary, seven years ago in Czechoslovakia, just three months ago in Portugal-a thousand promises on arrival, and then a totalitarian system...