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...citizens packed into City Hall's Sullivan Chamber for the most part indicated overwhelming support for the council's action, carrying signs stating, "Support the Neighborhood Plan" and "Vote No On the Planning Board Plan." A contingent of MIT students supporting the Neighborhood Plan sat in the balcony, although approval of that plan could severely limit MIT's potential for new dorm space...
...speech Thursday to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Administration and Finance Secretary Peter Nessen said spending restraint is still needed to keep the state from falling back into a fiscal mess...
...Klerk's long-awaited proposals for revamping South Africa's constitution, unveiled last week, look just fine. But on closer scrutiny some major defects appear. The country's blacks would vote for a national government for the first time ever. A bicameral parliament would consist of one chamber elected by proportional representation and a second representing nine newly created regions, with the power to veto legislation. The presidency would become a troika of representatives of the three major parliamentary parties...
...have a clear conscience." So said the former President of Peru, Alan Garcia Perez, now a Senator for Life, before the Chamber of Deputies mustered a narrow majority last week to begin proceedings to lift his congressional immunity from prosecution on charges that he embezzled $500,000 from public coffers and evaded taxes...
...drab Senate hearing room fittingly dominated by a vast map of the world, witnesses gave the first public testimony last week in the biggest and most brazen financial scandal of all time. Speaking in blunt terms that brought gasps from the packed chamber, they charged what TIME and other media reported in July: the criminal enterprise known as the Bank of Credit & Commerce International thrived as a $20 billion worldwide cash conduit for thugs ranging from terrorists to narcotraficantes, while Washington and other capitals turned a blind eye. "This is a story of big-time, big-money con artists," said...