Word: council
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...were reservations over how much pressure to cast ballots had been exerted by whites, especially in rural areas. There were also suspicions that under-18 youths had been al lowed to vote illegally in some places. Moreover, some of the districts where the bishop's United African National Council party had won most handsomely registered figures that approached, or were even higher than the 100% of voters who had been thought to live there, reflecting either ballot-stuffing or poor population estimates to begin with...
...most severe broadside directed at the electoral process came from the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, Muzorewa's main rival in the election and a colleague of his on the Executive Council that runs the interim government. After the polls closed, Sithole declared the elections a thumping success; within a few hours, he was charging that "gross irregularities" had occurred. Sithole's opponents accused him of being a bad loser, since his party, a branch of the Zimbabwe African National Union, got only 14½% of the vote. Later, it was announced that his party had won twelve parliamentary seats...
Last Monday night the Cambridge City Council ordered the city manager to investigate lighting on Harvard-owned streets, with an eye towards making the University pay for the electricity...
...council ceased to be a representative body and became an activities committee--that detracted from its ability as a spokesman for the freshman class." Anthony Meyer '82, a council representative, said Tuesday...
Mark Olsen '82, the council member who designed and interpreted the survey, said yesterday. "We're disappointed in the negative response, but it's not a result of apathy. Students are just too busy to be that politically interested...