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Ideally, Yeltsin would like to see the Soviet President and his Cabinet cede power to the Federation Council, a policymaking body that includes the leaders of all 15 constituent republics, though some of them are boycotting it. To force out the powerholders, who uniformly despise him, Yeltsin may be thinking of something like Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution," street demonstrations fueled by an overwhelming wave of people power. But no matter how great his popularity, even Yeltsin will be hard put to mobilize the Russian masses in large enough numbers. They are mostly anti-Gorbachev and antigovernment, but their political inertia...
However it happened, says Peter Frank, a Soviet expert at Britain's University of Essex, "the reactionaries' interests and Gorbachev's are now in harmony." As evidence, Frank points to the composition of the new policymaking Security Council announced recently in Moscow. In addition to the President, its members are Vice President Gennadi Yanayev and Prime Minister Pavlov, both hidebound bureaucrats; Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh, a professional diplomat with little political clout; Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, all hard-liners; and two token moderates, former Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin and Yevgeni Primakov...
...during the “Justice for Janitors” campaign, over 700 Harvard college students supported the janitors in their fight for better wages, and the Undergraduate Council (UC) voted in favor of the “Resolution in Support of Workers at Harvard.” Last year, over 1,150 students filled out comment cards demanding that dining hall workers receive fair treatment in their June 2006 contract negotiations...
It’s early evening, four days before the vote opens on a referendum that would reform Harvard’s academic calendar, and Undergraduate Council (UC) Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09—one of the two men on campus for whom the issue represents a key campaign promise—is just hitting his stride. Sitting on a couch in the Leverett House Junior Common Room, the lanky Sundquist holds a cell phone to his ear, while conversing with a reporter to his right, and researching HPV vaccines on his laptop...
...Monday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech. The candle-lit service began on the South Porch of the historic building, followed by a service inside the sanctuary. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes spoke at the 10 p.m. service, which was supported by the Undergraduate Council (UC) and organized by the Memorial Church faculty. “No one wants to feel like they are alone in tragedies like these,” Gomes, who is also the Pusey minister in Memorial Church, said in an interview before the event. “It?...