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While one cannot deny this possibility in any representative body, its likelihood can be reduced by setting up constitutional safeguards. One such safeguard is that unlike very small, autonomous committees, the new assembly will have one representative for every 75 students--that is, 85 separate voices. Since every undergraduate will be a member of the association, eligible to vote for members to the assembly, no student may be denied speaking rights in the assembly. There may also be provisions for periodic "town meetings" in the Houses, as well as the power of initiative and referendums on important issues...
...prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much as $75 million over the past 18 months. Investigators found that one escrow account in a Boston bank supposed to contain $3.6 million to safeguard clients' funds contained only $200. Massachusetts authorities believe the total siphoned off in their state alone could reach $12 million...
...gruff but avuncular authority figure, Vorster gained votes from both South Africans who want him to safeguard the country against change and those who want him to bring about change safely. In recent weeks there has been a series of incidents-a rash of daylight robberies and attacks in white suburban areas -that has had an unsettling effect on the national psyche. A bomb exploded at rush hour in Johannesburg's leading shopping complex, injuring 19 people. Two weeks ago, a National Party candidate for Parliament, Economist Robert Smit, and his wife Jeanne-Cora, were murdered in their home...
Some Middle East experts argue that a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza would be more of a safeguard for Israel than a hazard. For one thing, such a state would not be entirely free. Even P.L.O. leaders now talk approvingly about having formal links with Jordan, whose ruler, King Hussein, desperately wants peace with Israel. Moreover, it is clearly in the interests of moderate Arab nations that a dangerously radical regime does not emerge in any Palestinian state. A radical Palestine would be as likely to stir up unrest in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Arabs...
...Safeguarding Investments. As the latest OPEC episode demonstrates, the Saudis can be expected to wield their petropower prudently. Some of the other Arab oil producers want to use oil as a means of bringing the West to its knees and destroying Israel in the process. But the Saudis want to keep their customers healthy so that they can sell them plenty of oil. Also, as strict Muslims and fervent antiCommunists, they fear that an economic crisis in the West could so weaken Saudi Arabia's supporters that their own country would be vulnerable to Communist designs. Since the Saudis...