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THESE PROVISIONS have drawn overwhelming support from Democrats, but another Hunt innovation has come under increasing attack--the "winner-take-all" system of apportioning delegates, which gives all delegates in an electoral district to the top votegetter rather than awarding them proportionately to several candidates. The Rev. Jesse Jackson lambasts...

Author: By Jean E. Engelinayer, | Title: Playing With the Rules | 1/10/1984 | See Source »

I would stress that adequate and effective provision for verification is the crucial precondition for progress. Australia wants to make a constructive and realistic contribution within our means. In this connection, the joint U.S.-Australian facilities on our soil play an important role in arms-control verification as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Practical and Realistic Advise | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

The conventional drowsy drone of the Indian-run bingo game is not so different from that played in church basements and lodge halls all over California and the U.S. But it is certainly more lucrative: Indian reservations like the Morongos' are not subject to most civil regulatory laws-including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indian War Cry: Bingo! | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Another 10% of the aid is contingent on the continued progress of El Salvador's ambitious agrarian-reform program, which both the Carter and Reagan Administrations have promoted as a bulwark against Communism. Congress will have to decide whether the constitutional provision passed last week gutted land reform, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Washington's worries have been compounded by another ominous development: rising violence by rightist death squads. For the past month the Reagan Administration has stepped up pressure on the Salvadoran government to clamp down on the murderous crews, but last week's signals were confusing at best. First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Trouble on Two Fronts | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

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