Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty granted three reforms last year at the instigation of students in the Class of 1980, who broke the boycott in an attempt to reform the CRR from within. The CRR, however, still provides the students it tries no means of appealing its decision, except by asking the CRR itself to reconsider its decision. Nor does it admit hearsay evidence. Token reform can not alter the character of the CRR, which violates basic principles of legal justice...
Despite his proposed reform of petty apartheid, Botha has no intention of altering the long-range goal of Nationalist policy: maintaining white sovereignty in South Africa as head of a "constellation of states," that might include ten quasi-autonomous tribal homelands, as well as Zambia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as a bulwark against Communist expansion. If these measures fail to gain South Africa's security, some Afrikaners are contemplating more drastic steps. Predicted an influential Afrikaner last week: "In ten years' time, the army will appoint the civilians, and no one, black or white, will have to vote...
...knows how much his proposed National Health Insurance plan would cost; estimates range from $28 billion to $45 billion a year. For many years he urged Robin Hood-style tax "reform" and a closing of capital gains benefits, but he has not lately repeated that theme...
...Russian Orthodox Church. Even so, the Ukraine by official count still has 4,000 of the 11,000 Orthodox churches now open in the U.S.S.R.-only a fraction of the 53,000 churches in Russia before 1917. Protestant Ukrainians have been active since the early 1960s in a Baptist reform movement against state control. Half the reported 10,000 Soviet Protestants demanding emigration because of religious repression live in the Ukraine...
...word through a loudspeaker that echoes down the street. Pastor Yakov Dukhonchenko is Ukrainian senior presbyter for the government-recognized All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, those Soviet Protestants who have chosen to accept state regulation. This makes him a rival of Georgi Vins, a leader of the reform Baptists, who was stripped of citizenship and exiled to the U.S. this year in a prisoner exchange. Says Dukhonchenko: "Georgi Vins said it was impossible to evangelize, but the churches function freely and can preach the Gospel. We baptize publicly, in open water." But to reform Baptists like Vins, evangelism...