Word: hoc
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Sean C. Griffin '90, chair of the council's ad hoc committee on security and a former candidate for council chair, said he would be surprised if any of the incumbents were challenged, especially Subramanian...
...meantime, the only national institution with authority and legitimacy is the army. While the military has promised the Front its support, the ad hoc alliance faces the task of ending civil strife and imposing law-and-order on a country flooded with weapons and a thirst for retribution. Says a Western military attache: "Proper law-and-order can be restored only when the army takes all excess weapons out of circulation. But it can do that only when it has won the confidence of the population...
...position has an importance that meritshaving someone for a longer time," said Randal S.Jeffrey '91, a member of the UndergraduateCouncil's ad hoc committee for minority and womenfaculty hiring...
...country's new political leadership is likely to rise from ad hoc coalitions of intellectuals, students and workers similar to the Civic Forum in Czechoslovakia and the New Forum in East Germany. In Bucharest a group called the Front for National Salvation announced that it was assuming power. The organization is headed by Corneliu Manescu, a former Foreign Minister, who said he would act as President until free elections are held in the spring. Once a confidant of Ceausescu's, Manescu, 73, had a falling-out with the President during the 1970s, and has been banished to an apartment outside...