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...Dean Jewett announced that just 25 percent of the freshman class would be randomized in order to increase diversity. In response, 1200 first-years signed a petition against the new policy, and Dean Jewett was forced to repeal...
...takes a politically transparent no-new-taxes pledge, rushes to embrace Weld's proposal on welfare reform and crime, votes to repeal a ballot-endorsed corporate tax disclosure plan and continues to waffle on a graduated income tax," says Braude, who may enter the race...
...Increasingly that power is political too: two Cuban-born Americans represent the immigrant community in Congress. And the Metro-Dade Board of County Commissioners, recently reshaped by court redistricting, now has six Hispanics, four blacks and three "Anglos." One of its first acts was to repeal the English-only law that prohibited local government from conducting business in Spanish or Creole...
...productivity and poor Mexican transportation facilities? If there is such a movement, will it be offset by higher exports to Mexico of products like computers on which high Mexican tariffs will be eliminated? Will American plants in fact gain an incentive to stay home, because Mexico will have to repeal local-content laws that force many companies that want to sell there to manufacture there? Contrariwise, whether or not many American factory owners even think of moving to Mexico, will many try to use the threat of doing so as a means of holding down American wages? Owen Bieber, president...
Arafat and Rabin may find it more difficult to deal with rejectionists on their own side than to deal with each other. Arafat has to win approval from two-thirds of the Palestine National Council, a sort of P.L.O. parliament-in- exile, to repeal the provisions of the organization's charter that pledge destruction of Israel. He is likely to prevail, but only after some jockeying. Then there is a threat of violence from Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist organization that regards Arafat as a traitor for even talking to Israel. Hamas' current line is that it will not shed Palestinian...