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Clinton's speech in many ways appeared to be asignal that the Democratic party had learned fromits defeats in five of the last six presidentialelections. "There is not a program in governmentfor every problem," he said...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Clinton Accepts Nomination; Perot Ends Presidential Bid | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

...surprisingly, given who drew them up, theIndaba proposals (thus far rejected by the centralgovernment) suggest precisely the kind of outcomethat Huntington advocated in 1981: this is theleading consociational plan for South Africa. Itwould create a regionally autonomous governmentfor a combined Natal Province and Kwazulu, withtwo houses of parliament. One chamber would beelected at large, with universal adult franchise.But the other chamber would be formed throughracially-divided voters' rolls, with 10representatives for each racial or language groupand a final category for people choosing to vote a"nonracial" roll. Each separate bloc of Afrikaans,English, Zulu, Asian and 'non-racial'representatives would...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Mr. Huntington Goes to Pretoria | 11/5/1987 | See Source »

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