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At the heart of the agreement is Colombo's promise to create a single, locally ruled Tamil province in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. By the end of the year, residents of the new region would elect a governor, chief minister and a cabinet. Since Tamils make up 92% of...
The dignitaries could hardly overlook the ironies and injustices embedded in the Constitution. Philadelphia Congressman William H. Gray, who is black, recalled that one direct legacy of the Great Compromise was the provision demanded by sparsely populated Southern states that each slave be counted as three-fifths of a person...
As far as a limited program, recent reports of the progress of the draft Executive order indicate that coverage, which in earlier drafts had applied to all farmlands in use, would not extend to coconut and sugarcane areas--that is, to roughly 30 percent of all agricultural lands. Such a...
By week's end White House aides had disclosed the names of nine potential successors, but several appeared to face difficulties. Hatch and Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, a conservative Democrat, are likely to run afoul of a provision in Article I of the Constitution that prevents any member of...
Freedom of the press finds its broadest charter in the First Amendment but has been clarified over the years by the courts. In the 1964 Supreme Court ! decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, the Justices held that vigorous comment about public officials' performances of their duties was vitally deserving...