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LEGISLATORS IN WASHINGTON are whipping up a backlash against affirmative action programs that aim at righting the for-too-long-wrong numbers of blacks, women and other minorities employed in higher education...
Kansas DOLE v. ROY Kansas is one state where the G.O.P. incumbent may be saved by a Watergate backlash. At least he is doing his best to help it along. In mid-October, Senator Robert J. Dole, 5 1 , was hard to recognize in his TV spots...
SINCE THEN, Nixon has been buffeted by the pardon backlash and a "dangerous" case of phlebitis. But he seems not to have changed his plans. Newsweek magazine's "Periscope" section, one of the few reliable "inside dope" columns, reported last week...
Affirmative action--with the constraints it imposes on hiring procedures--has been less than popular with traditionalists who prefer the older and more informal ways of choosing their university's staff. Campuses are beginning to witness the beginning of a backlash against the equal employment plans...
Leonard says the anti-affirmative action reaction hasn't hit Harvard yet, but adds that "it could happen here." He says the time is right for backlash and that Harvard "must call on its internal strength to resist...