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...wring the politics out of the process as much as possible, last January President Clinton named a nonpartisan outside panel, officially called the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Former Republican Congressman Jim Courter of New Jersey is the chairman; its other members, four men and two women, are former government officials, retired military officers and business executives. In March they received the Pentagon's recommendation to close 31 major installations around the U.S. Since then they have added 47 others for "consideration." They plan to announce their decisions this week and pass their list to Clinton, who is allowed...
...been drawn, and in the coming weeks negotiators hope to complete the details. The next move should be the appointment as early as this month of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council that will have no executive authority but will oversee De Klerk's government policies to ensure their nonpartisan nature. When South Africans finally go to the polls, they will elect a bicameral legislature that will serve during a five-year transitional period and double as the constituent assembly responsible for drafting a postapartheid constitution. The party receiving the largest number of seats will choose the new President to succeed...
...stumbling, half-step forward in what Dutschke called the "long march" toward human freedom. It helped inspire the worldwide feminist movement and the resistance to communist authoritarianism that climaxed in the vast, peaceful revolutions of '89. For these reasons alone, the rebellions of '68 deserve at least one brief, nonpartisan cheer: Hats off to '68 and -- depending on your personal and political preference -- also shoes, shirts, ties, bras, plus blindfolds and manacles of any kind...
...many other cities and towns across the country that have vowed to try to fight the base closings in their own backyards. Bases are rarely removed from a closing list. But the combative Dellums is not ready to surrender. Instead he is preparing to take his case to the nonpartisan commission. "My constituents have the right to expect every decision to be made in fairness," he says, "on solid economic grounds and with strategic considerations in mind. It seems to me my constituents are being penalized for my political principles, and that's unfair...
...Foreign Affairs has tended to see nonpartisan to mean bipartisan. That's not very interesting," Zakaria said. "I'd like to make it spunky while intellectual. I don't want to make it into Spy magazine, but I'd like to have articles that people either love or hate...