Word: repeals
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Such tragedies should now be a thing of the past. South Africa's government last week proposed the repeal of the Mixed Marriages Act and Section 16 of the Immorality Act, laws that are generally interpreted as prohibiting marriage, cohabitation and sexual intercourse between whites and nonwhites. In reality, the move will not have a widespread effect: most authorities have long turned a blind eye to the country's few hundred mixed-race relationships. But the toppling of two of the pillars of apartheid seemed at the very least to prepare the way for further and more significant reforms...
...South Africa, the dilemma has become even more vexing as the Botha government, swaying between reform and repression, finds itself accused by non- whites of being too intransigent and by Afrikaner hard-liners of being too soft. The provision of new housing and the imminent repeal of the sex laws were moves in the right direction. But both seemed small steps along a path that promises to be long and painful. --By Pico Iyer. Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Cape Town
...remaining whites are concerned about unrest between black tribal groups, erosion of their own political position, and the plans of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe to turn the country into a one-party state. The creation of South African parliamentary chambers for colored and Indian representation, not to mention the repeal of the racial sex laws, may not amount to much in terms of political power for nonwhites, but the Botha reforms have helped convince the right wing that the President is not sufficiently aware of die svart gevaar (the black peril). Some political observers believe that in the next general...
Bush’s firm desire to privatize Social Security is driven by ideology, not reality. This same ideology prompted Republican presidential candidates Alf Landon to describe Social Security as “a cruel hoax” in 1936 and Barry Goldwater to advocate the repeal of Social Security in 1964. In 1978, a young Bush ran for Congress claiming that Social Security would be broke by 1988 unless private accounts were established. Unfortunately for the would-be Congressman, he was wrong. Unfortunately for all college-aged Americans, Bush is trying to phase out Social Security once again...
...churches from getting into politics was Lyndon Johnson, who passed a law that said you couldn't get in politics or you're going to lose your tax-exempt status, because they were all opposed to him when he was running for President. That law we're trying to repeal. It's very difficult to do that, but the point is, when they can knock out a leader, then no other leader will step forward for a while, because they don't want to go through the same thing. If they go after and get a pastor, then other pastors...