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...panic set in around 7 p.m. Sunday evening, when the news arrived from inside Venezuela's National Election Commission (CNE), which is dominated by allies of President Hugo Chávez. Referendum returns indicated that Chávez's constitutional reforms, including the elimination of presidential term limits, would narrowly lose. Inside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Chávez - who had yet to lose an election since winning the presidency in 1998 - was visibly upset. Still, according to government sources, he soon checked his anger and insisted the tally would turn his way before the CNE announced the results...
...Chávez was still losing by less than 2 percentage points. But the CNE, seemingly overwhelmed by the close contest, delayed its announcement while Chávez waited for the margin to drop below 1%, at which point he'd seek a recount (as Al Gore did in Florida in 2000, he said later). But the margin barely budged, and the opposition started seething in the streets, fearing fraud. Around midnight, Chávez's ex-defense minister, Raul Baduel, who opposed the reforms, warned that Chávez was flirting with popular unrest. By 1 a.m., says a government insider, Vice President...
...press box looks a lot nicer than the old wooden cne built back in 1935, but some significant questions have Harvard Athletic officials wondering whether the new box will offer a real improvement...
...That figure has got leprosy. It has got cancer ... If we go down to hell we will see something like that." The Friends decided to delay the presentation of the statue; said the presiding Friend, the Earl of Rosse: "It is notoriously difficult to judge works of art in cne's own day. The public should be allowed to judge...
British estimates are that a quantity of liquor equal to about half of cne per cent of the amount consumed in the United States prior to prohibition will come here from the Bahamas in 1923 at the present rate of export. The Springfield Republican points an interesting parallel between rum smuggling and slave smuggling prior to the Civil War, which makes this figure seem rather insignificant. The importation of slaves to the United States was forbidden in 1808, but illicit trade continued over 50 years until the Civil War and the Declaration of Emancipation. England was against the slave trade...