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...between the majority Hutus and the traditionally ruling minority of Tutsis. So far, more than 150,000 people have died. The U.S ambassador in Burundi has said that the U.S. will not tolerate a government installed by force. Ntibantunganya came to power as a result of a 1994 pact to form a coalition government between the two ethnic groups. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar
...between the majority Hutus and the traditionally ruling minority of Tutsis. So far, more than 150,000 people have died. The U.S ambassador in Burundi has said that the U.S. will not tolerate a government installed by force. Ntibantunganya came to power as a result of a 1994 pact to form a coalition government between the two ethnic groups. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar
Picketers set to hit the streets had to be called off last Wednesday when the pact was sealed just hours before the contract was due to expire and a strike to begin...
Perhaps the most unusual aspect of the new deal is its length. The five-year pact is the longest in the 60 years that Harvard's dining services workers have been unionized, according to Domenic M. Bozzotto, president of Hotel Workers Local 26, which represents the 554 dining services employees. Normally, dining services workers sign three-year deals, Bozzotto said...
...government case: though the Justice-Laborers pact has been denounced as a sweetheart deal, it was justified. A suit seeking to put the Laborers under government control could have dragged through the courts for years. Even then, it is not certain that Coia would have been ousted. "It is not a crime to be controlled by the Mob," prosecutor Coffey points out. To convict Coia under federal racketeering statutes, the government would have to prove that he committed two felonies as part of a criminal conspiracy. So far, "we don't have enough evidence," says an FBI agent...