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That leaves the coloreds and the Asians to be shoehorned into the Afrikaner political system. A primary reason for Vorster's calling the election is to gain a popular consensus for a proposed new constitution, one that would abolish the present parliamentary system, based on the Westminster model. Instead, each racial group in the country except blacks?whites, coloreds and Asians?would have a separate communal "parliament." These bodies would in turn nominate representatives to a Council of Cabinets, which would choose an all-powerful President (presumably Vorster). The council would have eleven members?six whites, three coloreds...
Koerner would go one step further and abolish or reform the tenure system to allow schools to dismiss incompetent teachers and hire more
Dalton, 46, is a wealthy lawyer who followed his father, Ted, a popular Republican state senator, into the legislature in 1966. But it is the controversial Howell who has been the primary issue in the campaign. As a state legislator in the '60s. Howell successfully fought to abolish the poll tax and to establish one-man, one-vote representation. He worked to pass consumer legislation and plug tax loopholes. This year, as a candidate, he is calling for the restoration of the 100 phone call (it costs 200 to use a pay phone in Virginia), collective bargaining for public employees...
...decision to abolish the committee was a part of reorganization of the whole Senate committee system. The reorganization plan, embodied in S. Res. 4, was the outcome of two years of research by the Temporary Select Committee on Committees chaired by Adlai Stevenson III (D.-III.). The resolution took effect February 4. The thrust of the plan was to consolidate and rationalize an overgrown system which had last been reorganized some 30 years before. In addition, there was general agreement that before 1977 senators were spread too thin over the mass of committees and subcommittees and thus could not effectively...
Just after being introduced, the plan ran into opposition. The opposition grew with time. First, the chairmen of committees that were to be abolished, such as Small Business and Veterans Affairs, protested the loss of a voice in the Senate; leaders of interest groups that dealt with these committees echoed this complaint. Second, there was opposition to some of the jurisdictional changes, such as transferring international economic policy from Foreign Relations to Banking. Third, there were technical questions about whether the Senate could unilaterally abolish joint committees. Fourth, there was opposition to what some senators, including Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz...