Word: march
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...document lays out a schedule for a return to democracy, including a special provision for Wednesday's referendum. In case of a "no" majority, it called for competitive presidential elections to be held in December 1989, with the winner assuming power in March...
...fact, B.U. students had a similar idea. They organized a march on Silber's house two Fridays ago, but called it off under pressure from Dean "go play with yourselves" Carter...
...march, set for September 16, was announced during a rally two days earlier, on Wednesday. It was called off after Carter met with the two students, Steve Ray and Angela Ranieri who were organizing the march and convinced them to cancel the demonstration and resort to more "rational" means of discourse...
...seems that Ray was so sorry about having even thought of organizing a march, that he took out a full-page ad in the B.U. Free Press explaining his position to the student body. In the ad, Ray did not say he had been pressured by the dean, perhaps because the dean paid for the ad. In any case, the march on Silber's house was cancelled, a testimony to the chicken-heartedness of student leaders in the face of a devious administration...
Carter denies having put any pressure on the two activists, saying that he only encouraged them to pursue different means. "If that's pressure, making someone think reasonably, then I'm guilty," Carter said. Surely he is not guilty of making students think reasonably; the cancellation of the march and Ray's complete sell-out were perhaps the most unreasonable actions possible by these so-called "activists...