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WELL, those should be enough reasons to convince you that I will be elected Class Marshal. In the next few weeks, you'll probably see a bunch of people walking around campus, slapping you on the back and asking for your vote. Feel free to humor them, but remember, this is just a formality...
...presidency (as a Democrat and then as a Populist), once for the vice presidency (in New Hampshire), once for the state legislature (as a Republican) and now for the Senate (as a Republican without the party's endorsement). Even as a Klan member, he won 33% of the vote in his 1975 Senate race. As an overnight Republican, he won 51% in his runoff victory for the statehouse seat he holds. The latest polls show him with 25% going into the Oct. 6 primary against incumbent J. Bennett Johnston's 42%, but Duke claims he has a secret vote from...
...woman at the L.S.U. game presses close to say "I'm for you, but my sister says she will never vote for a man who hates Catholics." He answers, with a smile, "When I was in the Klan, most of my members were Catholics" (as are most of the residents in his current district...
...imposed martial law in 1981 and outlawed the Solidarity trade-union movement, Jaruzelski gazed calmly from the sidelines last year as the revolt against communism gathered steam. He acknowledged Solidarity's election victory in June, and then won, with just a single ballot to spare, a parliamentary vote for a six-year presidential term. "As President, Jaruzelski has done practically everything that was expected of him," says Pawel Ziolek, a spokesman of the Forum of a Democratic Right, a coalition group. "Which means he did nothing to disturb the process of dismantling the system...
...went up in flames. "We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "Let's not kid ourselves . . . I ask you for the authority to act." He finished to whoops of applause punctuated with shouts of "Let's do it!" There was no quorum in the hall, so no vote could be taken. But given the enthusiastic response to Gorbachev's oration, the proposition seemed almost certain to pass when the Supreme Soviet resumes its debate this week...