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Mandela heartened Americans by emphasizing that he envisioned a multiracial future for his country, with full respect for the rights of the white minority. He promised potential investors that their ventures would be welcome in a South Africa in which everyone, regardless of race, had the vote. Nonetheless, some of his remarks inevitably drew him into the maelstrom of U.S. politics...
...White House meeting with G.O.P. lawmakers last week, chief of staff John Sununu worried out loud that the bill could be brought for a vote soon in the Senate. "The White House is apoplectic about the bill coming up while Mandela is in town," says one participant in the talks. Soon after, the Senate decided to take a preliminary vote on the bill just 20 minutes before Mandela appears to address a joint session of Congress...
...short-circuited history, jolting the late 20th century with some vexations that everyone thought would wait until the 21st. In no time at all, German unification went from almost unthinkable to all but unstoppable. Last week's hints out of Bonn that citizens of both Germanys will vote for a single parliament later this year was just the latest reminder that from now on, there will be German answers to the German question in all its complex and troubling dimensions. The four wartime Allies that crushed the Third Reich in 1945 can still consult, negotiate and harrumph to their hearts...
...extend the June 23 deadline, thus giving Manitoba time to complete its ratification. The maneuver had the opposite result. The premier of the other dissenting province, Newfoundland's Clyde Wells, complaining bitterly of the "fabricated precipice" of the June 23 deadline, then called off his own legislature's vote. Murray announced an hour later that the accord had expired...
Last week he persuaded the state legislature to follow his lead and vote for $2.8 billion in income and sales taxes. Coupled with an almost equal amount in spending cuts, the money will not only allow New Jersey to dig itself out of debt but should also provide additional state education aid to relieve homeowners of one of the most onerous property-tax rates in the U.S. Here too Florio soaked the rich: the legislature approved a plan to shift the bulk of its education assistance from the wealthiest to the poorest districts by 1995, leaving the affluent to make...