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Last week State President P.W. Botha took strong action to shore up the country's quickly deteriorating network of black schools. He announced a new set of regulations designed to restore order to the schoolhouse -- and to crush rampant dissent within it. The emergency decree empowers the director general of the Department of Education and Training to set rules governing almost everything touching school life, including whether students can wear T shirts emblazoned with political slogans...
...part of its crackdown on dissent in the schools, Pretoria last week empowered educational authorities to forbid students to wear shirts bearing unacceptable slogans on school grounds. The new regulations also covered uniforms and any other "article of clothing, case, flag, banner, pennant or poster," making it difficult for youngsters to use other sartorial means to express their views...
...sputter, though at week's end thousands of students took to the streets of Nanjing to protest the government actions. The ongoing demonstrations presented the government with one of its toughest political tests in recent years. The question: Could the Deng regime keep its promise to tolerate the dissent and open debate that seemed to go hand in hand with its free-market economic policies? The answer: a resounding maybe. The Communist regime had waited weeks before moving to close down the student protests, but when it acted, it did so with a yin-and-yang-like merger of delicacy...
...official in El Paso rejected her application for permanent resident alien status. Ordinarily, Randall would be eligible to remain because her parents and two of her four children are U.S. citizens. But the immigration official decided that she had to leave. The reason: "Her writings go far beyond mere dissent, disagreement with, or criticism of the U.S. or its policies...
...variety of arms-control issues, but he was clearly there to hold European hands and soothe European fears about the stability of American foreign policy in the wake of the Iran-contra arms scandal. "I have a rebuilding job to do," he told reporters. Shultz, who has made his dissent from the Iran policy well known, had the unenviable task of persuading the allies that the investigations have not seriously hampered President Reagan's ability to manage U.S. foreign policy...