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| | Carrying On | TIME |
 | | By a thumping 8-to-5 margin, voters had ousted the centrist Social Christian Party in favor of the country's strongest grass roots political force, the center-left Action Democratica under its amiable, soft-spoken leader, Jaime Lusinchi, 59. |
 | | Economics loomed large in Lusinchi's campaign and in that of his Social Christian opponent, Rafael Caldera, 67, who served as President from 1969 to 1974. |
 | | The result: not only did Lusinchi win a projected 57% of the 7.7 million votes cast, vs. 34.5% for Caldera, but Actión Democrática also gained comfortable majorities in both houses of Venezuela's 249-member Congress. |
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