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Attention suddenly focused on the committee last year when for the first time a slate of prodivestment candidates made a bid for seats on the Board of Overseers. The candidates, who were nominated by petition, charged that Harvard's election procedures were unfairly weighted toward University nominees for the open seats on the Board...
Although final results were not expected for two weeks, initial projections indicated that Aquino's slate had captured as many as 23 Senate seats and a substantial majority in the House. Only one opposition candidate, Movie Actor Joseph Estrada, 48, seemed assured of a Senate seat. Former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, 63, the leader of the opposition Grand Alliance for Democracy (G.A.D.), fell just shy of the mark in the early counting, but could win a Senate seat once the official tally is completed. The radically left Partido ng Bayan (People's Party), formed only last year, entered elective...
While the results reflected Aquino's immense personal popularity, they also carried the seeds of potential trouble. As a new power center, the Congress may prove difficult to control -- especially by a President who has been reluctant to use executive power. Moreover, the President's slate included an ideologically diverse assortment of candidates unified by little more than her endorsement, and that diversity leads many observers to expect the group to fragment once Congress meets. The lack of a politically coherent majority and the absence of an institutionalized parliamentary opposition could pose threats to long-term stability...
...Comelec), quickly dismissed Enrile's complaints. "There was no failure of elections," said Felipe, "but I think some losers would like to have a failure of elections." There were isolated incidents of vote buying and intimidation on both sides, and some of Aquino's relatives, either running on her slate or working for it, allegedly sought to use their family connections to influence the vote. Nonetheless, Comelec pronounced the balloting the cleanest and most orderly since the Philippines received its independence from the U.S. in 1946, an assessment generally shared by foreign observers. Despite the oppressive heat that gripped much...
Angry mobs disrupt campuses in violent demonstrations against President Chun Doo Hwan' s decision to postpone electoral reform. -- Projections indicate that Aquino' s slate won an overwhelming victory in the Philippine elections. -- A peace initiative threatens to topple Israel' s unity coalition. -- The trial opens for the accused "Butcher of Lyons." -- A coup shatters paradise in Fiji...