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...quorum for Gaddafi
...moderate African states by helping to engineer the recognition of the Polisario guerrilla movement, which opposes Morocco's 1976 annexation of the Western Sahara, as the O.A.U.'s 51st member. As a result, only 21 heads of state showed up, and Gaddafi did not get the quorum of 34 necessary to hold a summit. Last week he tried and failed again to be host at the meeting...
...wrangling dragged on, the prospects for the precious summit quorum melted away. The deadline for the summit was postponed by nearly two days. But finally only 30 delegations were willing to register for the meeting, and Gaddafi had to concede that there would be no conclave. As always, he tried to have the final word. "Contrary to what many think," Gaddafi declared, "the fact that the O.A.U. leaders have come to Tripoli twice to attend the [summit] is a victory for the Libyan people." The only loser was the O.A.U...
...week after State Superior Court Judge Sherwin Lester leaned on both sides. He ordered teachers back to work and, when they refused, began commandeering school buildings for use as makeshift jails to confine groups of teachers during the day. When an intransigent board of education failed to produce a quorum for a crucial bargaining session, the judge pressured board members to negotiate with the union. The final three-year settlement for the teachers represents yearly pay increases of from...
When the now-defunct Student Assembly met to disband last spring, the meeting didn't even draw a quorum, and the group had to vote itself out of existence by phone...