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Presidential Aide Patrick J. Buchanan last week charged that both the grand jury and the Watergate prosecutors had acted out of political bias against Nixon rather than on the evidence. He claimed, for example, that when Presidential Aide Dwight Chapin was found guilty of perjury on April 5, "members of the prosecution staff, gathered in court, cheered and embraced." Buchanan was not present when the jury announced its verdict; there was, in fact, no such unprofessional demonstration...
...poll also established that the public view of press performance on Watergate is still colored by partisan leanings. Democrats absolved the news media of bias by a wide margin-56% to 21%; Republicans found the press unfair by 49% to 27%. Regardless of party affiliation, however, seven out of ten persons interviewed think that the news media "would work just as hard to try to uncover wrongdoing no matter who was President," virtually the same proportion as a California Poll taken...
...rights and other fields.* Executive Director William Arthur, a former editor of Look, blames the council's slow beginnings on public ignorance of its existence and on the naiveté of early complaints. "Too many of them had to do with editorial opinion rather than accuracy," he says. "Bias is not something we handle." Associate Director Ned Schnurman concedes that only "about seven" of the council's 34 cases thus far have been "significant." But he adds: "Now we are getting the kind of cases that will make the council worthwhile...
...hiring practices based on race or sex has been so etched into the national consciousness that the phrase "equal opportunity employer (M/F)" needs no explanation to anyone who reads help-wanted ads. Many fewer people realize that there also is a six-year-old federal law against age bias in employment; among other things, it provides that workers aged 40 to 65 can be fired only for deficient performance or other good cause. Now the Government is stepping up enforcement of the law. Last week it won a settlement under which Standard Oil of California agreed to pay $2 million...
...which covers workers in eight Western states whose former jobs ranged from assistant service-station manager to executives; some earned about $40,000 a year. Individual awards to the employees will run from just under $10,000 to more than $50,000. Those figures, said Brennan, show that age bias will cost employers heavily in cash as well as wasted talent...