Word: according
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...suit, Sears asks the courts to declare its existing affirmative action program to be in full accord with the law. Insists Ray Graham, Sears' director of equal opportunity: "We've made a tremendous effort to comply." He notes that since 1966 the company proportion of women managers has risen from 20% to 36%; of women craftworkers from 3.8% to 8.1%; of black managers from 4% to 7.2%; and of black craftworkers from 2.8% to 8.9%. But the EEOC now demands that 50% of new management positions and 33% of new craft openings be given to women and Sears...
...President, moreover, felt that he had a right to criticize Moscow because it had signed the 1975 Helsinki accord. That agreement, among other things, calls for respect for human rights and a freer exchange of ideas and information between East and West. But Brezhnev interprets Helsinki very selectively. In his interview, he ignores the accord's provisions dealing with human rights and greater freedom while stressing the section that gives each signatory the right "to choose and develop its political, social, economic and cultural systems...
...positions to be finally agreed. We trust that the principle of equality and equal security, which the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. recognize as the starting point, will prompt correct decisions and that President Carter and I will be able in the near future to affix our signatures to the accord. The task set by life itself ?to put an end to the unrestrained arms race, to ensure security for our nations and to consolidate international peace at a lower level of military confrontation?is worth the effort...
Operating under the aegis of the conservative American Security Council, the Coalition for Peace Through Strength is poised to swing into action the minute signatures are dry on a SALT accord. Full-page ads are ready to be inserted in newspapers around the country. The coalition, which counts 175 Senators and Congressmen among its sponsors, has already lined up 89 special-interest organizations to support its antitreaty drive. Included are the American Federation of Small Business, the Reserve Officers Association, Americans for a Safe Israel and the National Alliance of Senior Citizens. Eventually, the coalition expects to spend $10 million...
Although 92% Catholic, Mexico lacks formal diplomatic ties with the Vatican, and the Pope will come without an official government invitation. Nonetheless, the government will accord him VIP treatment and heavy security. After a possible stopover in the Dominican Republic, John Paul II is due to arrive in Mexico City on Jan. 26 for a visit to the nearby shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The next day he will proceed to Puebla, 65 miles to the southeast, for the opening of a conference of Latin American bishops. During his five-day stay the Pope may also offer a "People...