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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Congress are how to complete the S&L bailout as swiftly as possible and how to prevent future financial fiascoes. Proposed remedies range from a complete overhaul of banking and thrift legislation to a soak-the-rich scheme that Joseph Kennedy II, a member of the House Banking Committee, put forward last week. Kennedy's plan would slap surtaxes on individuals with incomes over $100,000 a year and most corporations...
...Klerk's meeting with President Bush this week -- the first such visit by a South African leader in 45 years -- is the latest measure of how far he has brought his pariah nation. Bush invited De Klerk as a gesture to encourage reform; De Klerk welcomed the chance to put his best case forward, knowing that sanctions will not be lifted until he finally meets the various congressional requirements for doing...
...that De Klerk has jump-started the negotiating process, the real question is whether he can engineer the final transition of power. One of the main stumbling blocks will be reconciling, as Mandela has put it, "the demand for majority rule in a unitary state" with "the concern of white South Africa over this demand." De Klerk's proposal for power sharing is to establish a constitutional mechanism that would safeguard "group rights," which sounds like a way of perpetuating privilege for the country's 5 million whites. Nonetheless Mandela recently endorsed the idea that the first post- apartheid government...
...discussions are not the direct talks with Mandela that he has been seeking for an end to the bloodshed. On the other hand, Mandela contends with some justification that right-wingers in De Klerk's security forces are aiding Buthelezi and that the President has been reluctant to put a tighter leash on them. Last week he charged that De Klerk's "Iron Fist" crackdown policies in the townships ignored the problem and that peaceful negotiations were in jeopardy...
...taking back bad assets. Trouble is, it will take $18 billion to $20 billion in operating cash to do it. And it may push 17 of the shakier institutions back into insolvency. As before, a political unwillingness to face the true magnitude of bailing out the thrifts, and put up the money for it, means that the costs will remain obscured -- and will probably continue to rise...