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While handily losing both races, Howell—with 13 percent of the vote??came within a whisker of beating Republican senate candidate Jack E. Robinson...
...British Foreign Office labeled it “an unprovoked attack” that constituted “a grave breach of international law which could have the most serious consequences.” The United Nations Security Council—in a unanimous 15-to-0 vote??passed a resolution strongly criticizing the Israeli attack, after U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim reproached it as a “clear contravention of international law.” Even U.S. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, one of the Reagan Administration’s staunchest supporters of Israel, was forced to admonish...
...part of his “Get Out the Vote?? initiative, Reich stresses the importance of college students in the electoral process...
...elected by the University’s alumni, but their authority is limited—they rubberstamp the most important decisions made by the Harvard Corporation. When the Overseers confirmed Lawrence H. Summers as the University’s next leader, they were notified only days before the vote??giving them hardly any chance to scrutinize the candidate. The all-powerful and extremely secretive Harvard Corporation chooses its own members—making it accountable only to itself...
After trying twice to suspend the rules in order to discuss the vote??s postponement, committee member Joseph Grassi, supported by colleague Alfred Fantini, shouted his disgust with the proceedings...