Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City Council vote last night laid the groundwork for Cambridge to adopt a sister city in El Salvador to counteract the damage that they say the American military has done in the Central American country...
...first task will be to investigate the Pollard operation thoroughly. Rotenstreich and Tsur, the probers appointed by the Prime Minister, will presumably focus on the state of Israel's intelligence services, plagued as they have been by an unprecedented series of blunders (see box). Some Israelis believe the central problem is that almost four decades after Israel's independence, the country's vaunted security agencies have lost sight of their country's political objectives, of which the most important at the moment is continued close association with...
...beyond grasp, how about 306 solutions? That is exactly the suggestion made in a best-selling book that has raised a new controversy -- and won some surprising backers -- throughout the country. The book, South Africa: The Solution, proposes a Swiss-style confederation that would include a weak central government and 306 local bodies that could choose their own economic and social systems. Black radicals could set up Marxist cantons if they wished, and Afrikaner right-wingers could have their all-white enclaves. Everyone else could choose various systems somewhere between the extremes...
...Louw and Frances Kendall say they decided to write the book because those who oppose the apartheid system "know what they are against but need something to be for." Says Louw: "The struggle in this country is over who should dominate whom -- that is, who controls the very powerful central government. Our solution entails not having such a central government. We want to make it possible to let the tiger -- the black majority -- out of the cage without whites being eaten...
...level of government, the authors propose a two-house parliament based on proportional representation of the political parties in the cantons. The central government's power would be limited strictly to essential national interests, such as the conduct of defense, national finance and foreign relations. Both houses, Louw and Kendall assume, would have a black majority. So too would almost all the cantons...