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With so many concerns calling for stern management, Yeltsin might be expected to stay at his desk. Instead he announced he would fly to Japan this week for a long-scheduled three-day visit. He may have felt he had to keep the date this time, because he twice had to cancel to deal with crises at home. Beyond that, Yeltsin knows that appearances matter. Even if everything in Russia is not completely under his control, his arrival in Tokyo will invite the world to think he has everything firmly in hand...
Grove said the three-day extension to announce candidacy, imposed earlier thismonth by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III,allowed for a qualitatively better pool ofcandidates...
...civilians instead of restoring a civilian government on Aug. 27 as he promised. In a strong, silent demand that the general recognize the results of the June election, which was apparently won by his former friend Moshood Abiola, virtually the entire capital of Lagos shut down for a three-day strike. Abiola was in Washington hoping to persuade the U.S. to pressure Babangida to step down...
...police and riot-control troops out on patrol had the silent city to themselves. Citizens were staying home to protest the ruling military's refusal to hand over power to the man elected President on June 12 in the freest, fairest balloting in three decades. For a people accustomed to rule by force, the three-day strike was a brazen act of defiance...
...harsher punishment than a white guard was when both fell asleep on the job. Documents obtained by The Crimson show that Crockett received a five-day suspension while the white guard, who was training Crockett in how to do a new job at the Kennedy School, got a three-day suspension. The report said Crockett received a longer suspension because he was a more experienced guard...