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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The legislation will give the government broad authority to do battle with Sicily's deeply entrenched Mafia. The new high commissioner is empowered to tap telephones of suspected gangsters and to look into bank records to trace transfers of capital. Another new statute allows interrogation of witnesses behind closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock Therapy | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

To understand these disastrous ironies, you have to understand what S. 2222 tries to accomplish. Its two most hotly debated provisions are a ceiling on total yearly legal immigration at the current level of 425,000 persons, and an amnesty for some illegal immigrants now living in the United States...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: No Answer to Nativism | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Presented in the form of an amendment of the massive defense authorization legislation, this provision sailed through both houses with only minimal opposition. It will take effect for the 1983-84 school year and will affect all aid programs, including Guaranteed Student Loans, Pell Grants and Work Study funds.

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: The Draft and Student Aid | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Following the election, Botha's proposals won the unanimous approval of his party's Natal congress. At a rally for 1,200 supporters in Durban, the Prime Minister challenged Treurnicht to resign his seat so that a by-election could be held in his Waterberg constituency. "Then you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Ever Right | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

The new government will meet on its own, as well as sending representatives from its body to the three standing student-faculty committees: undergraduate education, housing, and undergraduate life. The provision should improve the accountability of the committees. The council will be financed by a $10 refundable surcharge added to...

Author: By Jacob M. Schesinger and Steven R. Swartz, S | Title: The Issues of 1982 | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

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