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...writing in response to your March 26 article regarding a meeting of the Undergraduate Council's "Sour Grapes contingent" to discuss the role of women on the Council. I refer to the Melissa Garza-Jennifer Grove faction as the "Sour Grapes contingent" because, whereas they have collectively been defeated in four races for Council Vice-chair, their frustration on the U.C. is more a result of their electoral misfortune than over valid grievances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sour Grapes at the Undergraduate Council | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

EVEN ITS STAUNCHEST ALLY COULD NO LONGER SUPport Cambodia's most violent guerrilla faction. China's vote last Monday made unanimous a Security Council resolution to proceed with national elections in May -- even though the Khmer Rouge will field no candidates. The decision apparently eliminates any chance for the Maoist group to be included in a coalition government, though no one can predict what will happen after the 20,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force leaves. The Khmer Rouge, who were responsible for the death of at least a million Cambodians during their 1975-79 reign of terror, made clear they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye-Bye Ballots | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...cuts, including $20 billion in Clinton's new "investment" programs. The moderates want to gut the space station, the supercollider and a number of weapons projects, such as the V-22 Osprey and remnants of the Strategic Defense Initiative and apply the proceeds to deficit reduction. The centrist faction was bolstered by a report from the Congressional Budget Office that revealed that Clinton had overestimated the deficit savings in his own plan by $16 billion. Echoing a growing chorus of lawmakers who believe Clinton underestimated the public appetite for cuts by merely nicking programs he should have killed, Penny said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Sell | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...THAT, IN EFfect, was the response by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to growing signs that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a fugitive since July, is living in terror and squirming for a deal. Escobar's nemesis is a mysterious paramilitary group called Pepes, which may be a faction of the Medellin cartel that has turned on its longtime boss. Recently Pepes has launched a Mafia-style vendetta, even bombing the home of Escobar's mother. Said a DEA official: "He's facing his own medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Petrified Pablo | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...from those of the HRRC, despite what members said at the meeting. The recent fissure seems to have been caused less by an identity crisis than by a mutiny in the ranks. After the official adjournment of the meeting, a shouting match broke out between the Wilson-Decaro-Garcia faction and the Fine-Taylor-Erskine faction over the the club's mission. Wilson stated that he wanted "to see [HRAC] succeed," Sun. Harry...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pandemonium on the Right | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

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