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Gorbachev will portray a yes vote in the referendum as evidence that Yeltsin is defying the will of the people by obstructing the Union treaty. Though conservative deputies have forced a vote of confidence in the Russian parliament for March 28 to threaten Yeltsin's hold on the chairmanship, his position will be greatly strengthened if Yeltsin becomes an elected president. The stalemate could then be prolonged. Yeltsin, however, has limited administrative and no police power and cannot enforce Russian laws on radical economic reform, for example, if they conflict with the Supreme Soviet's legislation...
That prediction is almost a certainty because neither of Gorbachev's crushing problems is about to go away. The referendum will do nothing to force the separatist republics to relent, and without basic reform the economy can only deteriorate. After withdrawing 50- and 100-ruble notes from circulation and setting the KGB to examining the books of offices with foreign connections, the government's next "reform" will be to raise prices on consumer goods an average...
...revamped academic calendar in which fall term finals would come before the December break was endorsed by 84 percent of voting undergraduates in a referendum in which just over half of the College’s student body participated, Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ‘08 announced on Friday...
...students who voted in last week’s referendum, 2,914 cast a ballot in favor of the UC proposal that would also extend winter break to four weeks and have the spring final exam period end more than a week earlier...
According to Petersen, 549 students voted against the proposal. The UC president, whose campaign centered on calendar reform, called the referendum “an extraordinary success” at yesterday’s meeting...