Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter emphasized that SALT's eventual approval by the Senate would be "in the national security interest." The request for a delay was greeted with relief by SALT supporters, a number of whom had feared that there was no chance the arms pact could now win the two-thirds vote required for passage...
...leaving for Iran ahead of the vote, Waldheim was able to claim that he alone had made the decision to go. Insisted his spokesman, François Giuliani: "The trip has nothing to do with the Security Council resolution." Waldheim hoped that this would head off any argument that he was acting under orders from the U.S., or that Tehran was allowing him into Iran under pressure from the threat of sanctions. It was the sort of face-saving gesture that has earned the Secretary-General a reputation as a master of diplomatic technicalities and procedures, but its effect...
...Constitution requires a census every decade so that there will be a basis for reapportioning seats in the House of Representatives. During the past ten years, people have been migrating from the traditionally Democratic urban centers to the suburbs and rural areas, where the vote is more likely to be Republican. The Democrats are pressing the Census Bureau to make sure that all big-city residents are counted. Republicans are urging the bureau to see that people are not overlooked down on the farm. If the Census Bureau's predictions check out, New York will decline in population...
...states where they are most abundant: California, New York, Florida, Texas. Last month the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonprofit organization working to end illegal immigration, filed a lawsuit charging that including illegal aliens in the census violates the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision...
...addressed those objections by deciding to include certain stipulations in its presentation to the Faculty Council, the next group to vote on the proposal...