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...thirds of the 2.7 million eligible white voters favored the new constitution, which had been hotly debated among white Nationalists. The approved plan allows for an executive white president with potentially authoritarian powers--he would be able to dissolve Parliament and declare martial law--and a three chamber legislative body composed of whites, Indians and coloreds (those of mixed blood) in separate chambers. Blacks, of course, will still be excluded. Parliament will be dominated by whites through a system of weighted votes that ensures the election of an Afrikaner to the position of authority, giving Afrikaners, who have dominated...
...months ago, and there is a waiting list for the new group that the three therapists will start as soon as they can find a roof for it (in Berkeley there are, literally, more groups trying to meet each night to support or empower each other in meditation, martial and marital arts, sword dancing and the like than there are places to put them...
...gold medal emblazoned with an image of the award's founder, 19th century Inventor Alfred Nobel, that the winner will receive in Oslo on Dec. 10. Walesa's selection boosted the sagging morale of a movement that has been crippled since General Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law in December 1981. For Poland's government, it was a stinging reminder that the world had not forgotten the ideals behind Solidarity's struggle...
After a year her she says she feels increasingly tied to Poland. She particularly remembers her original perceptions of this country. "My first impression was really interesting because we landed in New York. After Warsaw and martial law, it was like hell and paradise. Under martial law people are so sad. Everything looked grey and sad," she says...
...people in America are so used to freedom that they hardly notice it, she says. "When I came here it was shocking to me all that freedom and democracy. With martial law, just because we didn't have freedom, people are so hungry for freedom," the student recalls. Young people have never had any freedom in their life--but everybody cared," she adds...