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Last February, the Undergraduate Council faced a highly contested, back-biting election for the first time. Two sophomores organized a campaign to unseat the incumbent chairman and vice chairman, Brian C. Offutt '87 and Steven B. Smith '87. Running on a platform which advocated the council's increased involvement in ideological issues, the two presented a serious challenge to Offutt's chair. The two challengers ended up losing the election, but the aims and nature of the council underwent a serious evaluation...
...more slimy candidate jumps into the fray. In the race for county commissioner in Lawrence, Kans., Agnes T. Frog, a frog, won 27.4% of the votes in a valiant effort to unseat In- cumbent Nancy Hiebert. Agnes was a write-in candidate sponsored by opponents of a proposed highway that, they contend, would threaten the habitat of the northern crawfish frog. Despite the loss, Agnes' spokesman, John Simmons, a herpetologist (one who studies amphibians), was practically jumping up and down at her showing: "Agnes leapt into the contest with all four feet. The frognosis was good when we took...
California voters exercise judicial restraint. During her nine years as Chief Justice of California, Rose Bird voted to overturn every death-penalty case that came before her. This made her unpopular in a state where 80% of the voters favor the death penalty. During the noisy campaign to unseat her, Bird maintained her dignity. Asked by reporters how she was taking her defeat, she smiled and said, "Just like...
...views, similar to those of the President, became visible during his bid to unseat possibly the most popular incumbent Congressman in the state, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. One observer suggested that this politically risky move had won him points with the national Republican leadership...
...Managua, they are not keen to support the Sandinistas' enemies. Apart from destabilizing the area, the 15,000 contras have been charged with robbing . local campesinos and even, in a few cases, raping and killing them. Some Honduran officials fear the guerrillas are too ill prepared and misdirected to unseat the Sandinistas and will ultimately end up as refugees in Honduras. "They have no chance to win," says a local government official. "I just wish that the U.S. would send them to Alaska...