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...Jagan's People's Progressive Party as Burnham's main opposition. Three W.P.A. activists have been killed in the past year, including one of the group's leaders, Historian Walter Rodney, 38. W.P.A. members blame the deaths on Burnham sympathizers and have urged Guyanese to boycott this week's vote. Since the government has excluded the new group from the ballot, Burnham's supporters are confident of a landslide victory. "These elections are not really for us," a member of the government told a Western diplomat last week. "They...
...face to face with Harvard undergraduates today who want to break the boycott, Berg says he would argue, "If you are a part of it, you are making the system work," no matter what intentions the students may have for reform...
...news that Harvard students might break the CRR boycott hurts. "It's a slap in the face to all of us who fought something that we thought was important," he says...
Speaking in favor of continuing the boycott, Liberman describes placing students on the CRR as a way of "getting students to do it to themselves." The only students who he can imagine wanting to sit on the CRR, he says, are those interested "in the kind of experience they can put on their resume...