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Other promised liberalizations also offer little comfort to ordinary Iraqis. A new constitution that the regime says it will enact soon would grant Iraq's Kurdish minority a degree of autonomy, legalize political parties other than Saddam's Baathist organization, ban arbitrary arrests and guarantee freedom of expression and the right to hold peaceful demonstrations. An earlier amendment that would have made Saddam President for life has been scrapped. The proposed constitution, however, contains a loophole that leaves many Iraqis cynical about change: by declaring a state of emergency, the President could quickly abrogate these newfound freedoms...
...plan and design each year. They have drafted a Traditional Neighborhood Development ordinance that can plug right into the existing system -- and subvert it. The T.N.D. is a boilerplate document that codifies the nuts-and-bolts wisdom Duany and Plater-Zyberk have acquired, which cities, towns and counties can enact. "The T.N.D. thinks of things like corner stores the way other codes think of sewers," Duany explains. "Everybody simply knows you have to have them." More than 200 local planning departments and officials around the country have ordered copies of the ordinance, and the Florida Governor's Task Force...
...state ethics-reform law, passed after the felony indictments of two California legislators, makes attendance at biennial ethics courses mandatory for all state legislators and their staff members. It is probably the first time that an entire legislature has been sent back to school. Typically, Josephson asked participants to enact real-life situations that involve moral dilemmas. A pet example: When a senator is invited to speak out of town, is it proper for the sponsoring group to pay for the air fare and hotel bills of his family? Josephson explains that while such perks may be legal, they...
...everything from bake sales to raffles to raise funds. But we can't raise enough." Last week Texas failed for a third time to come up with a court-ordered plan to redistribute funds. The state supreme court has threatened to cut off all school funding, or else will enact its own plan if the legislature does not act. "It would mean total chaos," says Houston school superintendent Joan Raymond...
...recovered from near fatal gunshot wounds, he declared that he still opposed gun control. Last week the former President announced that he had changed his mind. In a speech at George Washington University, where he was treated after being shot by John W. Hinckley, Reagan called on Congress to enact a law requiring a seven-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns...