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Last May, the council passed a bill to increase the fee from $35 to $60 during the 2004-2005 year and then to $75 the next year after a student body referendum and approval from the Faculty Council. Thirty-five percent of students voted in the referendum. Of those undergraduates, 53.2 percent supported the proposed fee hike that would provide more money for student groups and campus social events...
...moon, it cannot bring back an extinct species. Rajat Ghai Baroda, India The Mechanics of Democracy Hugo Chavez, love him or hate him, is the democratically elected President of Venezuela [Aug. 30]. I am disappointed to see the opposition cry foul at the results of the referendum on whether to recall Chávez. They got exactly what they wanted: a referendum, a new vote, ample time to campaign and a brigade of international observers, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Voters supported Chávez's leadership by voting no in the recall referendum. It's apparent that...
...were forced out of territories handed to Poland after 1945 - a claim angrily rejected by Poles. "I would like to underline that it was not us that started this spiral. It was the other side," said Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka. Permanent Presence BELARUS President Alexander Lukashenko announced a referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow him to run for a third term. Elected in 1994, Lukashenko won a referendum in 1996 to extend his initial five-year term by two years; Western observers criticized his 2001 re-election as unfair. Terror Continuum INDONESIA A suspected suicide car bombing outside...
...Indonesia's ?lite parachute battalion during the 1962 invasion of then Dutch-controlled West Papua. The attack on East Timor and subsequent occupation sparked a guerrilla war and led to the deaths of some 200,000 East Timorese over two decades. Jakarta withdrew its forces after a U.N. supervised referendum in 1999 in which the onetime Portuguese colony voted overwhelmingly for independence...
KEPT IN OFFICE. HUGO CHAVEZ, 50, President of Venezuela; by the country's voters through a recall referendum; in Caracas. The leftist leader, hailed as a hero by the nation's poor but denounced as authoritarian by his critics, drew a 59% majority in a vote that was challenged as fraudulent by the opposition but endorsed by former President Jimmy Carter and the Organization of American States, which monitored the election...