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...real issue is what power does the City Council have to void the agreements of previous councils," said Councillor William H. Walsh, who voted to sell the easement last year...
Harvard outshot Dartmouth from the field, butthe Crimson grabbed only 30 rebounds to the BigGreen's 48. The void on the boards was onlyexacerbated by the turnovers, as Dartmouth hoistedup 27 more shots than the Crimson...
Most foreign experts agree that Endara, the candidate of an eight-party anti-Noriega alliance, won the May presidential election over Carlos Duque. Noriega declared that election null and void, and in the ensuing violence, Endara, Calderon and Ford were beaten by the pro-Noriega vigilante groups known as Dignity Battalions. Endara embarked on a two-week hunger strike to protest Rodriguez's subsequent appointment. After last October's failed coup attempt against Noriega, Endara went into hiding. "Nobody doubts ((his)) courage," says a senior U.S. official, "but it's a lot easier to get yourself beaten up than...
...warning strike" to force Congress to debate Article 6 and a package of reform laws. The strike was a failure, a tactical error that strained relations with Gorbachev, who was already impatient with Sakharov's frequent interruptions at legislative sessions. Nonetheless, Sakharov's death left a permanent void in the ranks of the liberal opposition and deprived the democratic movement of its symbolic leader...
...party leadership left some members with an uneasy sense that no one was in charge. But Prime Minister Hans Modrow seemed in command as he appealed on national television for calm, and the party hastily threw together a temporary 25-member working group to fill the leadership void. On Thursday the first talks between the Communist Party and the opposition yielded agreements to recommend parliamentary elections for May 6 and to rewrite the constitution. In addition, the foundering party advanced an emergency congress by a week to try to restore order and salvage shreds of credibility from the wreckage...