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Because De Klerk's steps have been as substantive as they have been swift, he deserves respect when he pledges a new deal for the country's 28 million blacks. Having freed Nelson Mandela, De Klerk has agreed to release hundreds of other political prisoners and has ended the state of emergency in much of the country. Most important, he and his National Party have started down a road that made De Klerk's predecessors tremble: toward negotiations on a new constitution that will finally enfranchise blacks. If everybody votes in the next election, this son of Afrikanerdom could...
...criticized federal officials who built in financial cushions so generous that they acted as counterincentives to swift resolutions of the thrifts' problems. While investors were able to apply their new tax write-offs to other businesses, for example, some of the deals did not require them to provide adequate capital to support the faltering institutions...
...just protection for the status quo," says a businessman. "We assume it will bring an improvement in the integrity of the government." From Washington's viewpoint, however, pushing Fahd and family down the fast track to Westernization and democratization is a likely prescription for a Shah-like disaster. Swift liberalizations could easily stir religious extremists to revolt. "If there's an internal threat to the kingdom," says a U.S. expert on Saudi Arabia, "it's from fundamentalists on the right, not liberalizers on the left...
...seemed so consumed with crime that it was incapable of thinking about anything else. Nursery-school teachers in some of the city's tougher neighborhoods train children barely old enough to talk to hit the floor at the sound of gunshots. They call them "firecrackers" and reward the swift with a lollipop...
...year of amazing fast-forward history, the later stages of American thinking about the gulf crisis have been swift in arriving. Across the U.S. the element of time began to take on profound importance. The window of $ popular support for the American mission in the gulf may prove to be narrow. Says Sheldon Kamenicki, a political scientist at the University of Southern California: "As recently as the late '60s, President Bush might have had a couple of years in which to operate. Now he has only a couple or three months...