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...vying with the issue of spousal abuse for attention. As in the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill showdown over sexual harassment, many black women feel caught between the pressure to stand loyally by a black man perceived to be under attack by the white establishment and the need to assert their rights as women. Last week, after black male leaders urged Garcetti not to pursue the death penalty against Simpson, Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred wrote to the district attorney on behalf of the Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund: "Since you have chosen to meet & publicly with...
...Puerto Rican problem, a Tyson executive called George Watts, president of the Broiler Council, who in turn called Espy's chief of staff and the acting Assistant Agriculture Secretary. Since USDA rules don't require the importer's name on consumer-size packages, Watts urged the department to assert the primacy of federal law. Just nine days after Clinton's Inauguration, when the Administration had barely appointed enough staffers to run the department, a career USDA lawyer drafted a letter to Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Rossello, making that rather technical argument. Espy signed it three days later...
Periodization is a sport which pundits fancy playing. But perhaps now it is time to periodize the self-aggrandizing pundits of television news. The initial feeding frenzy of the O.J. Simpson "case" having subsided for the moment, our collective decency can dare to re-assert itself. The O.J. Simpson imbroglio marks the final evaporation of that always-gossamer line between (what has been charitably called) "television news" and televisual entertainment...
...Jones lawsuit is a case of first impression, meaning that the courts have never before been asked to rule on the essential question: Does presidential immunity extend to conduct allegedly undertaken before a Chief Executive assumes office? Bennett will assert that the logic applied by the Supreme Court in its 1982 ruling in Nixon v. Fitzgerald should apply here as well. (After telling Congress that cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane could reach $2 billion, Ernest Fitzgerald, an Air Force management analyst, was fired. President Nixon took responsibility for his dismissal, and Fitzgerald sued Nixon for damages...
Marvin L. Kalb, director of the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, says activist groups that assert the need for generational change are nothing...