Word: reform
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Despite Worrall's optimism, recent polls show him trailing Heunis by 10 percentage points. But they also show that many agree with his argument. A survey in six key urban constituencies reported that 44% of the voters questioned believed the government had not kept its promises of reform, 43.4% thought the Nationalists had been in power too long and a surprising 51.2% favored scrapping the Group Areas...
Next week all that could change for millions of immigrants. May 5 marks the inauguration of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, one of the most important and wide-ranging pieces of social legislation in decades. Passed last fall in the final days of the 99th Congress, the law provides the opportunity for aliens who have lived and worked in the U.S. since 1981 to apply for status as permanent residents. In theory it will make it possible for as many as half of the nation's estimated 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants to emerge from...
Known as the Simpson-Rodino bill, the reform act was the culmination of a five-year effort in Congress to stanch the increasing flow of illegal immigration. Romano Mazzoli, the Kentucky Congressman who was a key sponsor of the original legislation in the House, sums up the sentiment behind it: "Any nation that doesn't have control over its borders is a nation whose central core might be threatened." The law is based on a carrot-stick principle: it offers legal status to long-term immigrants while mandating sanctions against employers who knowingly hire more recent arrivals. Illegal aliens...
Conservative local officials, however, are having trouble adjusting to the changes. The law is fuzzy on procedures and powers for local bureaucrats, who are finding ways to block the reform. In Moscow, for example, a commission has been appointed to judge the artistic and moral merit of handicrafts proposed for sale. A young Moscow mother of two who paints churches on wooden eggs was turned down because her wares were "of a religious nature." A jeweler's products were rejected because the work, although it sells briskly, was deemed "ugly...
...court-monitored bill of rights." Murray Hofmeyr, incoming chairman of the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, has called on South African business leaders to oppose injustice. And Michael Rosholt, chief executive of Barlow Rand, South Africa's second largest industrial empire, has also appealed to business leaders to support reform...