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Nakasone's plan enjoys a good chance of passage. Reason: his Liberal Democratic Party controls 307 out of 512 seats in the Diet's lower house and 144 out of 252 in the upper chamber. Still, strong opposition has already surfaced, especially to the imposition of new taxes. In last July's general election, Nakasone promised that he had "no idea of introducing a large-scale" sales tax. While the Prime Minister will maintain that a 5% levy does not qualify as "large-scale," many Japanese consumers will resent the burden nonetheless. Some lawmakers are attacking the plan on more...
...Natal conferees had proposed a merger of white-dominated Natal and black-ruled KwaZulu, the government-designated Zulu homeland that is located inside Natal's borders. The area would then be ruled by a two-chamber parliament. One body would be based on "one man, one vote," which would mean black control and result in a black prime minister. The other would guarantee an equal number of seats to blacks, Indians, English speakers and Afrikaans speakers. Provisions to safeguard white rights, while allowing for eventual black rule, were also included. Dr. Oscar Dhlomo, a black delegate to the congress, called...
...spent a lot of time eating its own, with the far-right making war on moderates over immigration and values issues," Napolitano told me. She then showed me, in a whirlwind tour of Tucson, how she had won the support of the local business community. She told a Chamber of Commerce group, "The population of this state is going to double by 2030. We've got to figure out how to handle that. You don't want to create 50,000-person subdivisions without a transportation plan. And you need skilled workers to build the houses and engineers to design...
...spent a lot of time eating its own, with the far-right making war on moderates over immigration and values issues," Napolitano told me. She then showed me, in a whirlwind tour of Tucson, how she had won the support of the local business community. She told a Chamber of Commerce group, "The population of this state is going to double by 2030. We've got to figure out how to handle that. You don't want to create 50,000-person subdivisions without a transportation plan. And you need skilled workers to build the houses and engineers to design...
...George Bush takes the lectern in the House chamber for his State of the Union address, he can finally claim that he is fulfilling the promise of his 2000 presidential campaign to be a uniter and not a divider. With his proposal to increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, Bush is indeed bringing Democrats and Republicans together. The problem for him is that the bipartisan front they are forming is against him. It has the potential to lead to the most serious foreign policy confrontation between a President and Congress since the Vietnam...