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...chance. Humphrey would like to succeed retiring Mike Mansfield as Senate majority leader; but Senate Whip Robert Byrd of West Virginia has campaigned tirelessly for that job and has a long lead. Udall would like to compete for the Senate in 1980. The brightest future seems to belong to Jerry Brown, whose lower-thy-expec-tations lines turn on the voters. Unless they weary of his above-it-all vagueness, he may well run for President in 1980 or 1984, when he will be only...
...Southern Baptism of the '20s. Baptist leaders today protest with justifiable vehemence against stereotyped suspicions. "We're not a bunch of right-wing bigots," says Floyd Craig. "We're a pluralistic people. Every ethnic group is represented." Some 70,000 blacks now belong to the Southern Baptist churches, and several of the organization's key staffers are black. On the other hand, that 70,000 represents only one-half of 1 %-a minuscule figure that Baptist leaders ascribe partly to local autonomy, partly to black separatism (black Baptists, of whom the most celebrated was Martin Luther...
...multinationals are frequently blamed for using secrecy to control vast networks of companies that have different names but belong to the same shadowy combine. The OECD would end all that. In the future, corporations would be required to make public complete descriptions of the activities of their principal affiliates in major areas of the world. Among other things, the multinationals would also have to list the number of their employees, report local sales and profits and disclose the amount of money invested in research and development...
Affirmative action quotas are also counterproductive and impractical. One can imagine, for example, the feelings of an applicant rejected by an employer or school, while others are being accepted, not because of their superior qualifications (they may often have inferior qualifications), but because they belong to the right race or minority group under affirmative action quotas. Such a person most likely will feel bitterness towards the favored races and minority groups, a feeling that will foster a racist attitude. Even where the applicant is rejected solely on the basis of his qualifications, he is still likely to blame the quotas...
...qualified applicant will by chance be a member of the race or minority group that is needed to fill the quota slot open at that time. In this case the most qualified applicant will lose his opportunity because of racist considerations. If the most qualified applicant does happen to belong to the right minority group, then the quotas are irrelevant because the person will be chosen anyway, if the basis for selection is merit...