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...overwhelming margin, Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 becomes the second popularly elected Undergraduate Council president and the first woman ever to lead the council. On Dec. 15, a council referendum on budget allocations, moved to a separate date to prevent candidates from influencing the results, fails due to insufficient turnout...
...question-and-answer session aimed at addressing student concerns drew only a few undergraduates--most of whom were Undergraduate Council representatives. However, students later blamed the meeting's low turnout on lack of publicity...
After the council voted to hold the referendum just days after the presidential and vice presidential elections in an attempt to depoliticize the referendum, it failed to get the necessary 25 percent student turnout...
...Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) since the Islamic party, which looked sure to gain control of the government in the 1992 elections, was outlawed after an army coup. Hoping to establish legitimacy after coming to power in the 1992 military takeover, President Liamine Zeroual is looking for a large turnout among the 17 million eligible voters. Although the FIS is still party non grata, Zeroual has agreed to allow opposition from moderate fundamentalist parties as long as they removed Islamic references from their names and platforms and renounced violence. TIME's Scot MacLeod reports that while international monitors agree that outright...
...Etienne Tshisekedi, the former Prime Minister passed over by Kabila when he formed his new government last week. No injuries were reported, but some 50 who had been chanting "Kabila, assassin of Congo!" were detained after the army moved in. TIME's Marguerite Michaels notes that the relatively small turnout means Kabila still has plenty of support. "If Tshisekedi, who is thought to be popular in Kinshasa, can't muster more than 1,000," she says, "Kabila doesn't have to do much of anything. Tshisekedi may just fade away." Besides, Michaels notes, Tshisekedi is hardly a martyr of Congo...