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...country's most vital industries and clearly has the potential to be a major force in South African affairs. Its leaders have already openly committed themselves to an activist role in the antiapartheid struggle. "We are no longer going to be passive," said Barayi. "COSATU is going to govern this country...
Most of the mayors have held previous city political position, but many felt the sessions, jointly sposored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, would help them govern better...
Duarte, who personally supervised the complex negotiations that secured his daughter's freedom, has been accused by some of his opponents of cutting a deal too generous to the guerrillas. As a result, his ability to govern the country has been seriously compromised for the first time since he assumed office 17 months ago. In an effort to regain control, Duarte is considering a harder line toward the rebels. "I was trying to give them political space so they could accept the democratic process," he said in an interview with TIME. "For example, we haven't (asked) for the extradition...
Although such responses are predictable, they are also intensely ironic. Granted that, at first, the thought of implementing an honor code sounds threatening, its ultimate effect is flattering. The proposition rests on the key, and by all means correct, assumption that students possess the maturity to govern certain portions of their academic affairs without supervision. The establishment of a code would remove from the classroom babysitters we've by now outgrown. To reject an honor code out of hand because of its one uncomfortable, albeit necessary aspect--the responsibility of one student for another's actions--is to focus prematurely...
Public doubts over the government's credibility further darkened the Socialists' prospects in legislative elections scheduled for next March. Even before the Greenpeace debacle, the conservative opposition had been expected to gain a majority in the National Assembly. Political observers last week were wondering whether Mitterrand, whose term does not end until 1988, would be so weakened after the elections that he would be unable to govern effectively in "cohabitation" with the conservative parties. There was speculation that he might be forced out of office before the end of his term. Mitterrand, for his part, issued a terse declaration...