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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three years after the University stopped subsidizing mortgages for senior faculty members, the shadows still remain...
...settled to about 2,700 pesos to a dollar, down 37% for the week. Supplies of dollars quickly ran out as Mexican citizens lined up at banks to change their pesos. At week's end Mexico's Finance Minister, Gustavo Petricioli, appealed to the public on national television to remain calm...
...assigning every square foot of South Africa to residential use by one of the four racial groups and, when passed in 1950, was hailed by Prime Minister Daniel F. Malan as the "essence of apartheid." Though the present government of State President P.W. Botha insists that the law remain on the books, authorities do virtually nothing to enforce...
...used for such now discarded remnants of apartheid as the ban on interracial marriage and the infamous pass laws, which required blacks to carry documents stipulating where they could live and work. The government insists that no such drastic move is called for, and promises that communities wanting to remain segregated will be allowed to do so. But John Kane-Berman, executive director of the South African Institute of Race Relations, strongly disagrees. "It is clear that the government is compelled by the right mix of pressure and action to shift its bottom line continuously," he says. "The next domino...
Although he will almost certainly lose his nonvoting seat on the ruling Politburo, the former Moscow party chief is expected to remain on the policymaking Central Committee. In his new post he will hold the No. 2 position in a department responsible for one of the most important yet trouble-prone sectors of the Soviet economy. Yeltsin will help oversee large- scale construction projects, a field in which he specialized when he was a young engineer assisting in the development of the industrial center of Sverdlovsk...