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...commend TIME for addressing the vitally important subject of U.S. immigration policy. Comprehensive immigration reform must be enacted promptly. Not only are employer sanctions needed to deter the immense flow of illegal aliens to the U.S., but some overall limit on legal immigration also must be established. Otherwise the U.S. will face the same overpopulation-related problems now so obvious in the countries from which most immigrants are coming. M. Rupert Cutler, Executive Director The Environmental Fund Washington...
Ahead lie big battles over the budget and tax reform and the much ballyhooed summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan would have seemed a whippersnapper next to Leonid Brezhnev or Yuri Andropov, but now the comparison may cut the other way. Reagan's visitor points out that the new man in the Kremlin is young and healthy. "Yes," grins the convalescing President, "but I'll try not to take advantage...
Behind Botha's obdurate stand is the tacit admission that his tentative reforms over the past two years have been less than successful. His white constituents, the majority of them Afrikaners, whose African roots go back to the landing of Dutch settlers in Cape Town in 1652, are more split than ever. A verligte (enlightened) faction, which forms a significant part of Botha's ruling National Party, is aware that some form of political accommodation with blacks must come eventually. A verkrampte (literally "cramped," or hard-line) breakaway group is determined to keep things as they are, if by sjambok...
...tide to high tide in two years' time. But I have absolutely no doubt that a difficult and painful process of evolution is going on, evolution for the better." Afrikaner Theologian Nico Smith notes that some of his friends find it strange that blacks are not more appreciative of reform. Says he: "Sadly, many Afrikaners can't understand that blacks are now comparing their circumstances with those of the whites of South Africa, not the blacks of other parts of Africa...
Upon the release last spring of the 67-page Summary of Principal Recommendations for the Review, professors attacked the report for want of focus and vision, in spite of the report’s many specific suggestions for curricular reform...