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...without restriction; drug addicts from elsewhere found cruising the neighborhood can be arrested and forced into detox programs. "In a city where 43% of the population is not of Dutch origin, it's especially important that the rules for noncitizens be clear and enforceable," says Opstelten. For city councilor Michiel Smit, 26, a member of Livable Rotterdam, another party Fortuyn once headed, those programs don't go far enough. Smit particularly likes the idea of deporting criminal offenders of Turkish or Moroccan origin, even if they were born in the Netherlands and have Dutch passports. "We grant nationality too easily...
Most young Europeans don't dream of making it big in Brussels. But members of the European Parliament Nick Clegg, 34, Michiel van Hulten, 32, and Lousewies van der Laan, 35, are not your average thirty-somethings. For a start, they are passionate about European politics - and that means they're passionate about the European Union. Mention institutional reform and they bristle with excitement; ask of their ambitions and they gush about shaking up the E.U. "If you're young and want to change things, you should follow the power - and power is shifting toward Brussels," says Dutch Liberal...
...despite Vorster's campaign thunderbolts, there are signs that the Prime Minister wants to moderate both the leadership and direction of his party. One hint of a future change: the resignation last week of Michiel C. Botha as Minister of Bantu Administration. An unbending Afrikaner, Botha was responsible for enforcing the education, housing and labor laws that cover the country's blacks. He was a main target of black wrath during last year's violent riots and in the current strike of teachers and students that has paralyzed the school system in Soweto...
...actual coronation occurred at the moment when South Africa's Minister of Bantu Administration, Michiel Botha, presented letters of appointment to Prince Zwelithini, whose father, Chief Cyprian, died 18 months ago. Standing stiffly in a plain black suit with a leopard-skin sash draped incongruously across it, the Prince wept with emotion. Then the crowd roared a traditional tribute: "Bay-ete wenawendhlovu [Hail, noble elephant]," and Zwelithini took his place on a throne of scented tamboetie wood with arm rests carved in the shape of lions...
...explains Bantu Development Minister Michiel Botha. "In the white area the white man is No. 1 and the Bantu...