Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yesterday afternoon, a petition calling for the referendum had been signed by 820 students, well beyond the 663 needed to force a vote, said Anjalee C. Davis '96, a former council member who organized the effort...
After waking up yesterday afternoon, I did some more reporting. I interviewed a few more seniors, and I tried to reach others, including campus figures: the inestimable Michael P. Beys '94, former Undergraduate Council chair; Zaheer R. Ali '94, former Black Students Association President; etc. (Okay, there's no "etc." I only tried to reach two campus figures...
...finance and nuclear espionage ?- had reached a breaking point over Waco. Reno?s anger is understandable: After staking her credibility on a version of events at Waco which denied that federal agents had fired potentially incendiary tear gas rounds, Ms. Reno found herself in limbo last week after a former agent revealed that the FBI had indeed fired military-issue CS gas canisters...
...results of Monday?s independence referendum are expected within days, and the result is expected to be overwhelmingly in favor of autonomy for the former Portuguese colony seized by Indonesia in 1975. Violence by anti-independence militiamen is building to a frenzy, with attacks on civilians, U.N. officials and journalists unimpeded by the Indonesian police and troops charged with maintaining order, and it may take a force without vested interests to pacify the militias. "The U.N. would probably be prepared to send in a force in order to resolve this conflict," says Dowell. "While the U.S. may not be prepared...
...Chavez scored an important victory Monday when the Constitutional Assembly, elected in July to draw up a new constitution, effectively dissolved the country?s center-right-controlled parliament. The protests of opposition legislators won?t resonate with the electorate, who are still overwhelmingly behind the 45-year-old former paratrooper and failed coup leader. "Most Venezuelans support Chavez because the country?s traditional parties were so corrupt," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. But enthused though they may be by Chavez's promise to share the country?s oil wealth with the impoverished majority, they may be disappointed...