Congress also agreed to convene an assembly next July to rewrite the Constitution and to schedule a referendum that would give Bolivia's far-flung regions more autonomy.
At the high school today, officials convened an assembly to inform the 450 students, who live in Westchester and the Bronx, of the arrest.
In 1807, Napoleon convened an assembly of rabbinic authorities to address the question of whether Jewish law prevented Jews from being loyal citizens of the republic.
Chagrined, the opposition say they will go ahead and convene an assembly anyway.American officials defend the decision to bypass the opposition on several grounds.
Still, Mr. Valenzuela convened an assembly this spring to tell sixth graders, many of them the children of truckers and distributors in the tomato industry, that their homework today is critical to their AIMS performance.
The protesters, largely supporters of President Rafael Correa, a leftist economist, had gathered to criticize an effort by lawmakers to raise their own salaries and to show support for a plan by Mr. Correa to convene an assembly to rewrite parts of the Constitution.
In January 1960, the ALC convened an assembly, calling for support of the Cuban Revolution, while also declaring opposition to totalitarianism and dictatorships.
As for the idea of convening a national assembly to select a government, he said, "there is no such thing anymore".
He would do so by convening a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, bypassing a Congress he considers to be irredeemably corrupt.
As Afghanistan turned a page in its history, with the former king convening a traditional assembly to choose a new government, the withdrawal of a chief challenger for the leadership today made it increasingly likely that Hamid Karzai, the current interim leader, would remain in power.
