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...Step Down" (Editorial, Feb. 14) also claims that such "a decision should be left to the students" but refers to the alleged misconduct as "fact" and confidently claims that because "a majority of the Council has called for [Burton's] expulsion" it is in the students' interest that Burton resign. It claims that the "student body will" in fact "hold the current administration in distrust" until Burton resigns...
British loyalist paramilitary groups began to decommission over a year ago, and yet the IRA has refused to give even a clear committal to surrendering its caches of weaponry. Faced with the IRA's intransigence, first minister Trimble assured his party that he would resign from the cabinet rather than participate in a government threatened by an armed IRA. The British government wisely resumed direct rule in order to prevent Trimble's resignation, which would have destroyed the legitimacy of the power-sharing government. An IRA statement issued just hours before the British reclaimed control, in which the IRA proposed...
...provide a "credible commitment" to disarm, failing which it will suspend the territory's historic joint assembly and executive. That would flash-freeze the peace process, which London considers preferable to allowing the total collapse that would result if Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble carries out his threat to resign by February 12 in the absence of any disarmament. The crisis reflects the mood of the hard-liners on both sides unconvinced by the compromises struck by their leaders. "For a long time Adams complained that Trimble hadn't prepared his followers to sit in an assembly with the very...
...latest controversy surrounds the timing of the council's special elections--held to fill seats vacated by individual council members who resign their seats or are removed from the council during the course of the year. Special elections typically occur several times a year...
...does NOT hold sole authority to determine the schedule and rules for Special Elections," he wrote. "The VP is responsible for administering the elections, but 'The Executive Board shall be the sole arbiter of all special election disputes.'" Marshall, along with other council members, has called for Burton to resign in recent weeks...