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As the warfare between government troops and rebels entered its fourth week, a shaky cease-fire collapsed, and savage fighting erupted again in the capital, Kigali. In what U.N. workers described as the biggest and fastest exodus they had ever seen, more than 250,000 people poured into neighboring Tanzania...
"It's sort of giving everyone a chance to reconsider their vote," Born said.
The motion to reconsider, filed by Councillors Kathleen L. Born and Francis H. Duehay '55, was voted down this Monday night without discussion.
According to council procedure, the matter cannot be discussed until a motion to reconsider has passed.
In Singapore an American teenager who pleaded guilty to vandalizing cars and was fined and sentenced to six strokes of a split-bamboo cane and four months in prison, lost his appeal for clemency. President Clinton has urged Singapore to reconsider the penalty.