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...against reform in principle, but the type of reform by Mr. De Klerk is a denial of the existence of a separate people who are entitled to self-determination. He started on the road of a unitary state, of participation by all individuals in the government of the country. For us, that means 30 million black people, with their own cultural, ethnic and racial background, will have an all-out majority against the rest of the population. It means whites are not entitled to govern themselves, to protect their rights, to protect their culture and way of living and aspirations...
...Mulroney's side. From the old Russian empire to the new Europe, there is a devolution of power not only upward toward supranational bodies and outward toward commonwealths and common markets, but also downward toward freer units of federation that would allow "distinct societies" to preserve their identity and govern themselves -- without bolting altogether. If Canadians, French and English speaking alike, choose to be part of that pattern, the current crisis over Quebec will pass just as those earlier ones did, perhaps never to be repeated again...
Because of those Libyan links and uncertainty about how effectively Taylor might govern Liberia, Washington distrusts him. All American citizens have been urged to leave. Four U.S. warships are stationed off the coast to evacuate them if necessary. Taylor says U.S. suspicions are misplaced. He describes himself as "a cold-blooded capitalist" and has said that his heroes are "Tricky Dick Nixon" and "good old Ronnie." State Department analysts believe that there is in fact little ideological difference between Taylor and Doe and that their struggle is simply for power. The U.S. provided Doe with hundreds of millions of dollars...
...editor of the New England Journal of Medicine told the Class of 1990's Phi Beta Kappa members yesterday that the increasing commercialization of medicine is compromising the ethics which used to govern the profession...
...transgressed certain of the laws and regulations that govern our industry. I was wrong in doing so and knew at the time, and I am pleading guilty to these offenses." With those contrite but carefully crafted words, | deposed junk-bond king Michael Milken, 43, began a tearful confession before a federal judge in Manhattan last week. The man whose deals revolutionized Wall Street and convulsed corporate America read a 15-min. statement detailing his role in securities fraud that involved recently paroled speculator Ivan Boesky and investment banker Dennis Levine. "My plea is an acceptance of personal responsibility...