Word: reform
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Bradley combines star quality from his basketball career with a reputation as a sober policy maven able to score points on complex issues like tax reform and international debt. Like Hart, he could occupy the "big think" niche while appealing to baby boomers. Cuomo, the old baseball player, hits oratorical home runs as he mixes traditional Democratic themes with odes to pragmatic governance. He has a following among Democratic ethnics in the North. Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is an acknowledged master of national security policy. His conservatism could win him bales of white votes...
Mexicans make up more than half the estimated 4 million indocumentados, or undocumented aliens, who will be affected by the U.S. Immigration Reform and Control Act that took effect last week. Not surprisingly, their countrymen bitterly criticize the new law, which will force many illegal workers to return home, as discriminatory. Even President Miguel de la Madrid has expressed disdain for the legislation. Said he: "Let's see what the United States has to say when it needs workers." Among the President's concerns: the flood of Mexican workers that could inundate Mexico as jobs become increasingly scarce...
...clear that we are interested in much more than an evening of pleasure off of Bimini. What was Gary Hart doing with Warren Beatty back in the McGovern campaign, we ask. What about his talk of "reform marriage" and his carousals with leading members of Hollywood's den of iniquity...
...general election in six years, opponents of the country' s system of racial segregation are standing up. Some members of the once nearly monolithic "white tribe" are looking for change. Even the cradle of the volk, Stellenbosch University, is being swept by an intellectual revolution as professors demand real reform. See WORLD...
...typical for a hard-line Communist regime. Voice of Viet Nam Radio reported that balloting for a new National Assembly produced a standard 99.32% voter turnout, and the winners dutifully mouthed socialist pieties. But in fact last week's balloting may herald a new era of economic and political reform for the beleaguered Vietnamese...