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...general council business, vice president John A. Burton '01 announced the first round of council attendance warnings...
...Burton issued two warnings last night, to David B. Orr '01 of Cabot House and B.J. Averell '02 of Dunster House. He also announced that Erica A. Farmer '01 of Currier House and Benjamin L. McKean '02 of Cabot House have resigned from the council...
Your report "Homicide In The Sky," on the unruly airline passenger who died from injuries inflicted by fellow flyers, almost got me off the ground [NATION, Oct. 2]. You seemed sympathetic to Jonathan Burton, a passenger who was acting like a crazed lunatic and who, if left unchecked, could have brought down a planeload of people. You looked critically at the brave passengers who apparently contributed to Burton's death while trying to subdue him. Was his death the result of vigilante justice? No. It was the result of people doing what they had to to save themselves and others...
...review of the embargo. The Clinton administration's previous moves toward relaxing the embargo were torpedoed in 1996 by Havana's shooting down of two civilian aircraft flown by anti-Castro exiles who'd dropped pamphlets on the island. That prompted President Clinton to sign the Helms-Burton Act, which made the embargo an act of Congress rather than simply an executive order. But once electoral concerns recede next year - and if Castro avoids any high-profile outrage - the momentum on the issue is likely to swing back to the agriculture and business groups lobbying Capitol Hill...
Cabot residents had little reason to vote: the House that was once the home of current Council Vice President John A. Burton '01 did not field any candidates for the ballot...