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...elections. Nonetheless, he took to the campaign trail last week on a surprise visit to the volatile North Caucasus region, where ethnic tensions have sparked armed conflicts. The President's message could not have been more direct: if voters in this separatist-minded region failed to endorse his new draft constitution, the Russian Federation was in danger of falling apart. Local officials dutifully joined the President in a statement calling for a da vote in the constitutional referendum...
Anger expects the coalition will draft a new constitution for the Undergraduate Council that will be presented to the council's re-evaluation committee next semester...
...bewildering task, since few Russian voters will be able to decipher from the draft constitution's 66 pages and 137 articles what parliament's role will be, what procedures it will follow, or how the 450 members of its lower house, the Duma, and the 176 delegates of its upper chamber will coordinate with the executive. No one even knows where the Duma will meet, although one proposed site, on the outskirts of Moscow 10 miles from the Kremlin, suggests the importance the new parliament will command in Yeltsin's estimation...
Bleary-eyed as the clock ticked past midnight, the negotiators bargained over final details. At last, nine hours late, 19 men ascended the podium in the cavernous convention center and signed, one by one, a draft constitution giving equal rights to South Africans of every color. The last-minute delay was nothing to blacks who had waited generations for this moment. "We have reached the end of an era," declared a triumphant Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress. President F.W. de Klerk agreed: "South Africa will never be the same again...
...fear is that this interim constitution, which puts in place a government of national unity for the next five years, will not fulfill its promise of a reasonable balance of power to those who distrust Mandela and the A.N.C. De Klerk called the draft "a product of compromise" that could be either "a charter for peace" or "a prescription for powermongering." Ominously, the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party and several white separatist groups -- which have rejected the negotiations, threatened to boycott the elections and even hinted at armed resistance -- stayed away from the signing. They continue to insist that regions...