Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend before last Tuesday's primaries, Carter's own polling in New York showed his support melting like snow in the spring. Said a key Carter lieutenant: "We panicked Sunday because there was nothing that we could do to turn it around." It is a commentary on this primary that the very same day there was despair in Kennedy's camp. Several aides considered meeting with the Senator on Tuesday afternoon to tell him that the race was over, that he should withdraw gracefully that evening and not suffer any more humiliating losses...
Carter's aides took comfort in the fact that on the Sunday before the primaries, the President won 57 delegates in Virginia's caucuses, to Kennedy's four. Since Kennedy's delegate margin in Connecticut and New York was only 50 (a total of 193 for him to Carter's 143), the week ended with the President's lead lengthening. Moreover, Carter has considerable strength to tap in the contests ahead. Besides the primaries in which he is favored, particularly in Southern and Border states, nine states have yet to hold caucuses, where...
...instead Bush won by 31%-29%. In the Maine caucuses, the Bangor Daily News had Carter ahead of Kennedy by 19 points the weekend before the voting; Carter beat Kennedy by only 6%. In New Hampshire, a Boston Globe poll put Reagan and Bush almost neck and neck the Sunday before the election; Reagan walloped Bush...
...military aid of, $5.7 million to the junta. "We are fed up with weapons and bullets," he explained. He urged the U.S. instead to "channel the aid to feed thousands of our people." The archbishop also led a campaign to locate the missing victims of arrests, and every Sunday read a roll call of the week's dead. Salvadorans came from all over to plead for help, clutching photographs of relatives who had disappeared...
...MUST SHARE THE BURDEN). Then the next week, some 100 advance issues of the Sunday Globe appeared with the wrong edition of the syndicated Parade magazine supplement; instead of the intended cover story about TV's Walter Cronkite, readers of these were treated to a feature on New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner, who may be the most unpopular personality in Red Sox-mad Boston since King George...