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Lobbying reform shouldn't impact wireless spending on Capitol Hill.(News)
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February 13, 2006
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Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
Wireless, telecom and high-tech sectors that spend an estimated $300 million a year to change the hearts and minds of congressmen, federal regulators and White House officials are unlikely to lose prized access to policymakers, with efforts to pass lobbying reform legislation showing signs of losing steam and direction.
Even so, the high-profile lobbying reform issue is not expected to go away. One reason: Some lawmakers are apt to be implicated in the government's lobbying corruption probe as a result of disgraced lobbyist Jack ...
 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Vain but cunning bully who lived beyond the law; PW Botha, 'South Africa's Pinochet', has passed on but his ghost haunts the Outeniqua mountains and his legacy is a blight on our political landscape.(News)
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; ...the wave of the future, was followed by Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, whose regime removed...followed by the descent into darkness that was Balthazar Johannes Vorster. Also pro-Nazi, Vorster lies buried under a large black marble slab...
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Still fighting apartheid
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...notes, the prime minister of the country was Balthazar Johannes Vorster and the moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church was his brother, Koot Vorster. So the Vorster brothers tied up the country politically and...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...dog show, 1938; Felix Bloch, physicist, 1983; Balthazar Johannes Vorster, prime minister and president of South Africa...David Herbert Lawrence, novelist, 1885. Deaths: Johannes Fyt, painter, 1661; John Brand, antiquary and...
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 "The Mercury (South Africa)")
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Mbeki like a hypnotised mouse.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mercury (South Africa)
; ...Mugabe issue is deafening. When all is said and done, what is the difference, apart from skin colour, between Balthazar Johannes Vorster and Robert Gabriel Mugabe? Peter Hill St Lucia
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Signs of the ANC's decline are easy to find.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
; ...indestructibility but, as events in the past fortnight show, it is beset by internal strife. In 1977 prime minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster led the NP to its greatest electoral victory but, in retrospect, 1977 stands out not only as the zenith in...
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SOUTH AFRICA: 'Our Strength Lies in Secrecy'
Magazine article from: New African
; ...of assisting divine destiny received unanimous applause from an audience which included Broeder number 3737, Balthazar Johannes Vorster, the then prime minister and successor to Verwoerd. The AB had come a long way from its founding in 1918...
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SIX OF THE BEST
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...overcame the unspeakable cruelties of apartheid, and how the British establishment effectively collaborated with Balthazar Johannes Vorster's repugnant government to keep him out of England's 1968 tour of South Africa. It is also, in parts...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Jaap Marais.(South African politician)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...the right by his successor, Johannes Balthazar Vorster. The new prime minister had...Unbelievable though it now seems, even Vorster was not extreme enough for Mr...Mr Marais was not subdued. Vorster's government was, he said...
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