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...drive to the session guarded by a six-truck convoy of troops; other Deputies were escorted by gunmen from their own local militias. The Mediterranean villa that serves as a temporary Parliament itself came under heavy fire-though no one was hurt. Still, the fighting failed to deter a quorum of 69 out of 98 members of Parliament from convening. While mortars exploded all around, Sarkis, 51, who is governor of Lebanon's Central Bank, won the presidency on the second ballot, after having failed to get the requisite two-thirds majority on the first ballot...
...some places, it would be difficult to raise a quorum for a game like bladderball, with its deranged, inchoate release of energy and its attendant pranks. At Harvard, it is unusual for 3000 people to participate in anything at all, let alone dangerous forms of institutionalized madness, but at Yale things like bladderball come to seem quite natural, an organic part of life there, a phase in a universally felt, all-consuming cycle of tension and release...
...Christian hill village outside Tripoli, so thoroughly detests Premier Rashid Karami, a Sunni Moslem, that they can barely work together. Though Karami began seeking a solution in Parliament last week, so many of its 99 deputies refused to venture out in the line of fire that a 50-member quorum was never mustered. Karami then invited nine key factional leaders to join him in his office and lock themselves in until something had been hammered out. Only two accepted the invitation; in desperation Karami threatened to resign, was talked out of it and began calling in leaders for private sessions...
Fink had to re-apply for admission to the SAC after he graduated last year. He was rejected under the normal screening process, but the SAC accepted him at a later meeting at which a quorum was not present and members suspended regular procedure...
While the President was promoting his program, the remaining chamber in session on Capitol Hill was trying to catch up. The Senate Finance Committee finally put together a quorum and approved, by a vote of 12 to 2, the House bill postponing the oil import fees for 90 days. Though the measure will be easily passed in the Senate, the question is whether or not it will get the two-thirds vote to override a veto...