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...silly decision is but the latest in a series of apartheid measures that have led blacks to boycott the town's business district. As a result, commercial sales are down 40% to 70%, but the council has refused to budge, ! despite pleas by the Boksburg Chamber of Commerce to reconsider. The Conservatives did make one small concession to common sense: they will allow Yip's children to eat at the Golden Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Food for Thought | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...report as a partisan Republican attempt to smear a powerful political opponent, and it tilted the odds against the Speaker. Only a few weeks ago, Wright had seemed likely to hold on to his job. Now close observers of Congress, such as lobbyists and Democratic powers outside the legislative chamber, think the best he can expect is to retain the speakership until late in the year, before being pushed into resignation. House Republican Whip Newt Gingrich, who first called for the Wright investigation, went even further, predicting that Wright would become such an embarrassment for the Democrats that Majority Leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombshell in The House | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The House Ethics Committee, with Democrats and Republicans united, formally charged Speaker Jim Wright (D Texas) yesterday with 69 violations of the chamber's rules, including what the panel's chair called "a scheme to evade" limits on outside earnings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Charges Wright on Ethics Breach | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

Lonoff succeeded in opening the door by turning a hand-operated mechanism, then slipped out the chamber and descended the remaining three-and-a-half feet to the C level floor assisted by a firefighter "who very gallantly lent me his shoulder...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Administrator Held Captive | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...agreement calls for reorganization of the Parliament with a strong President, expected to be General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The legislature will offer unprecedented power to the opposition: a re-established upper chamber, the Senate, will have 100 members to be chosen in free elections in June; the Sejm, or lower chamber, will retain its 460 seats, of which the majority will continue to be reserved for candidates representing the ruling Communist Party and its allies, but 35% of Sejm members will be freely elected. The pact even provides for opposition media, complete with a newspaper and regular television and radio programming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Moscow Scales Back | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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