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...Communist Party and its allies, a special slate of 35 prominent candidates who ran unopposed, there might be no second round. A majority of voters, eager to reject the whole Communist system, scratched all but two names off the ballot; 33 candidates were defeated and their seats thrown into limbo. That unexpected result triggered a constitutional crisis, since the electoral law requires a full 460-member Sejm but provides no mechanism for filling the vacant seats. Until these legal obstacles are resolved, the Parliament cannot fill the presidency, a powerful new post that was expected to go to party leader...
...fully her husband's commitment to ending the Somoza dynasty, which had ruled since 1936. Before the Somozas came to power, four Chamorros had been President of Nicaragua. Pedro Joaquin's editorials left no doubt that he hoped someday to continue the family tradition. His political outspokenness got him thrown into jail four times, but each time he emerged with even greater popularity, until he became a symbol of the mounting opposition to the dictator. On Jan. 10, 1978, as he drove to work in his red Saab, two shotgun- wielding assassins blew him to bits. Says Jaime Chamorro, Pedro...
March 4: The wrestling team is stripped of its title because of a failure of proper weigh-in procedures in its 24-16 win over Columbia. As a result, the title is thrown to the Lions...
...security guard in the Yard reports objects being thrown from a window at Canaday Hall. Police respond, hearing that a person was nearly struck by one of the items. The culprit cannot be found. A student tells The Crimson that the objects were books belonging to an exam-weary Yardling...
BEIJING--Nearly a million people from all walks of life poured into central Beijing yesterday and demanded that leader Deng Xiaoping step down. Premier Li Peng told student leaders that their five-day hunger strike has thrown the city into chaos...