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CAMBODIA'S ELECTION IS NOT SCHEDULED TO BEGIN until May 23, but Khmer Rouge guerrillas are already casting their votes with bullets instead of ballots. Determined to scuttle the election or greatly reduce the turnout, the rebels killed more than 20 people in assaults on several Cambodian cities and brazen raids against units of the 20,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force. On Monday guerrillas wounded five Indian soldiers in Kampong Cham province and temporarily seized the airport in the city of Siemreab, home of the famed Angkor temple complex. Later in the week a Japanese policeman was killed...
...Mixner says, "To our opponents, it seems important to prove that we almost don't exist." To gays, it is equally important to prove that they do, in great volume and variety. Organizers expected hundreds of thousands of marchers, maybe 1 million. Advance signs pointed to a huge turnout: hotel rooms in Washington were all but unobtainable, and so were airplane reservations from some parts of the U.S. "Our trains have been crowded since Tuesday," said Amtrak spokesman Howard Robertson. "Every available resource is going to be used. This is bigger than the Inauguration...
...council expects the rally to draw "a huge turnout," both students and media, Greenspan said...
School boards' practical effect is to stifle reform and stymie professional administrators with inept micromanagement. A 1986 report authored by the Institute for Educational Leadership found that school boards often impede innovative programs. The study also showed that voter turnout for school board elections is perennially low nationwide. In New York City, only 7.2 percent of registered voters turned out for the last set of school board elections. And for most of these people, the ballot was simply a list of relatively anonymous characters...
...voter turnout, combined with the relative obscurity of school board candidates, makes such tactics very effective. Unfortunately, the people elected in such races only make the schools ineffective. Anyone who can conceive a way of running the schools worse than would a school board composed of equal parts ACT-UP and Christian Coalition deserves a prize. These groups are out to prove a political point. What do they know about the nuts and bolts of education...