Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playing theedited version rather than the live version. Atapproximately 9 p.m., Artie congratulates the 12thcaller in a contest to win some arcane collectionof gifts. He points at Skip and his visitors, whocheer on cue for the winner. He then edits thephone call, and all present listen to themselvesscream on the radio...
Herzfeld also wonders whether "there is any connection between [Ulin's past support of the American Association of United Professors] and present events...
...soon clear that monarchists were decisively outnumbered, and the main issue became the procedure for choosing the Head of State. At present the Governor-General, the representative of the Queen, is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The position is largely ceremonial, but the Governor-General has a constitutional role to play and can, in certain circumstances, draw upon the reserve powers of the Crown...
Some republican supported what has been called the "minimalist" position, which sought to placate those who feared the unknown by minimizing the changes in becoming a Republic: they wanted a "President" who would be appointed in very much the same way as the present Governor-General. Other republicans wanted to involve the people in the appointment of the Head of State, preferably by election...
...allowing secret testimony to South Africa's Truth Commission, former president P.W. Botha found himself defending a contempt of court case that will likely cover the same ground. "In the end, Botha's simply doing it the hard way," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "The commission will present all the evidence against him in order to explain why he was subpoenaed, and Botha will have to respond to that evidence. But the result of his stubbornness is that he has to do it in court, when the Truth Commission were offering him a private hearing." His defiance, however...