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China is subject to a variety of U.S. laws that place restrictions on everything from arms to export credit. Haig planned to inform Peking that Washington is prepared to loosen the controls that now govern trade between the two nations, thus paving the way for the Chinese to buy such items as radar equipment, computers and transport aircraft. In addition, the Secretary of State wanted to discuss the possible sale of arms. Ever short of funds for modernization, the Chinese prefer technology transfers and licensing agreements that would allow them to build on their own such products as the General...
Nonetheless, Botha vows to "continue the direction we have taken" in easing the laws that govern the so-called petty apartheid. But he has no intention of changing the far more important underlying structure of apartheid that denies blacks the right to vote in national elections, requires segregated primary and secondary schools, forbids blacks to own land in major cities and forces 52% of the black population to live in ten impoverished rural reserves, or "homelands." All together the homelands constitute 13% of South...
...feelings have persisted among some of the department's students and faculty members. The executive committee on Afro-American studies created by Rosovsky in the fall of 1979, remains a symbol of administration dominance for those who believe it has tried to deprive the department of the right to govern its own affairs. The committee chaired by C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law, was given responsibility for making most of the department's policies and decisions, although Huggins says its only role during the past year has been assisting in the search for candidates to fill the department's tenured...
Obviously a center-right majority elected on that platform would make it impossible for Mitterrand to put through his economic and social reforms. The President-elect has said that if he did not get a leftist majority, he would try to govern with whatever majority did emerge from the elections. But his room for maneuver would be severely limited. If he attempted to form a coalition with the center, for example, he would almost surely arouse the hostility or outright opposition of the Communists...
...Mitterrand, a two-time loser in previous election bids, for his record as France's most unsuccessful presidential candidate. Giscard charged that sooner or later Mitterrand would be forced to make a deal with the Communists. The pointed implication: he would not be able to get elected, or govern, without Communist support...