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...interest in congressional campaigns is directly linked to one of Ronald Reagan's pet projects, tax reform. The largest PAC contributors are usually the energy, real estate, banking and insurance industries, all of which benefit from tax breaks threatened by some of the tax plans under consideration. Not surprisingly, Oregon's Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has received the most enthusiastic support: $2.6 million so far, $691,000 of it PAC money. Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer notes that PACS have donated $3.7 million to the 56 members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance...
...people in certain designated homelands did not accept "independence," he said vaguely, they "will remain a part of the South African nation, are South African citizens, and should be accommodated within political institutions within the boundaries of the Republic of South Africa." The President also dashed expectations of breakthrough reform surrounding South Africa's influx controls, the laws that restrict the right of blacks to live in urban areas. Botha said only that "the present system is outdated and too costly," and that the advisory President's Council would report on the laws "in the near future...
...State President P.W. Botha's ruling National Party, the Treurnicht-Marais challenge is no laughing matter, as last week's cautious performance at Durban proved. While Botha has pressed his agenda of modest reform, he has been forced to watch the right wing carefully. A senior National Party official estimated this month that of South Africa's 4.9 million whites (60% of whom are Afrikaners), about 20% support ultraconservative groups that insist on retaining total apartheid. If the President continues on his path of reform, the official predicted, the extreme right might increase its strength by 6% to 8%. Other...
...speeches to the party faithful, Hu has said Western democracy is a "blind alley" for China, and he has excoriated the path to reform, with all its attendant chaos, taken in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev. Hu's key policy initiative so far has been to strengthen, not weaken, the role of the Communist Party in Chinese life. "They believe the party is the only way that China can maintain political stability," says a China watcher in the U.S. government. "Political institutions outside the party are not to be trusted." In essence, the thinking goes, party discipline guarantees stability...
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