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Hosokawa may have won one battle that will please the U.S. and the rest of the world. Although officials in Tokyo vehemently deny it, the Prime Minister has quietly finalized a plan to end Japan's long-standing ban on foreign rice imports and replace the virtual prohibition with tariffs, as required under the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Hosokawa may unveil the scheme as soon as next month, the deadline for the end of the current GATT talks. Apprehensive Japanese rice farmers last week furiously protested the arrival of the Tanjung Pinang, an Indonesian...
...against each other -- a practice that encouraged contests based on issues of patronage rather than substance. In its place the Hosokawa government proposes a system of 274 representatives elected from single-seat constituencies and 226 chosen by proportional representation from a national list. The electoral reforms will also ban corporate donations to individual politicians, offer a government subsidy of $294 million to political parties for electoral purposes, and create an organization to draw up the new districts...
...interim constitution is a heartening milestone in South Africa's bloodied march toward democracy. At least 12,000 people have died in factional violence in the four years since Mandela was released from prison and De Klerk lifted the ban on the A.N.C. But shared power is not a South African tradition. With Mandela's A.N.C. enjoying a commanding lead in the pre- election polls, die-hard supporters of racial separation or ethnic self- determination must decide whether to accept the new government as a legitimate institution or work to undermine...
Much of the new support for the assault-gun ban came from Senators representing Midwestern and Western states that are strongholds of the once invulnerable National Rifle Association. Colorado Democrat Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Montana Democrat Max Baucus, longtime NRA supporters, both voted for the ban...
Though neither man is up for re-election until 1998, NRA executive vice- president Wayne LaPierre has a warning for them: "We have a real long memory." He also claims that NRA suffered no real setbacks last week. It took no steps to oppose the ban on sales to minors, says LaPierre, who also expects that the assault-gun ban will not be part of the final anticrime act. As for the Brady Bill, it includes an NRA-supported amendment that will end the waiting period after five years through the establishment of a nationwide computer system to conduct instant...