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De Klerk's antiapartheid moves seemed almost to be following a script written in Washington. When the U.S. Congress imposed economic sanctions in 1986, lawmakers said they would lift the ban only if Pretoria enacted a list of major reforms. These ranged from the release of Mandela to the abolition...
Startling as this screed and its official support were, it was less harsh and insubordinate than others aimed at Gorbachev lately. One of the loudest reactionaries in parliament, Air Force Colonel Viktor Alksnis has called for the abolition of the presidency and formation of a National Salvation Committee to restore...
What is to be done? Representative Washington has it exactly backward. Forget the crumbs, demand reparations. It is time for a historic compromise: a monetary reparation to blacks for centuries of oppression in return for the total abolition of all programs of racial preference. A one-time cash payment in...
In other business, the CUE decided to recommendthe abolition of April honors exams. Membersreviewed statements from the head tutors of 15departments, nearly all of whom criticized thetests as serving no useful academic purpose andcreating excessive paperwork.
Behind Thatcher's full skirts hid skeptics on issues ranging from the abolition of all border controls, to a single currency by 1994, to free immigration within the European Community. "It was easy for certain countries to sit back and let her do the talking," said a senior E.C. diplomat...