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Citing anti-Western bias, the U.S. pulls...
...opponents' other principal argument concerns apparent racial bias in sentencing. In many states black killers of white people have been more likely to get a death sentence than blacks who kill blacks, or whites who kill victims of either race. The most extensive study in this area, published last year, found that in Georgia during the 1970s, a death sentence was four times as likely in cases where the victim was white. The study found that among scores of factors, none were statistically more important in predicting a death sentence than the victim's race: to juries...
...stay Stephens' execution. Then he reversed himself three weeks ago, voting with the new majority to lift the stay. Then, just hours before Stephens was executed last week, Blackmun reversed himself once again, voting that a stay should be reimposed because of the unresolved question of systematic racial bias...
Selection itself is no proof of bias, it is merely a necessity: the millions of words a newspaper receives must be reduced to the thousands it prints; hours of tape must be fitted to the time constraint of a half-hour news program. The bias, if there is one, is less apt to be in ideology than in choosing what will most interest the audience or document the thesis the journalist has found in the material...
...certain management and budgetary reforms are not under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take a firmer stand against UNESCO's financial mismanagement and anti-Western bias. Its director-general, Senegal's Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, has annoyed the U.S. and Britain by, among other things, promoting a plan under which UNESCO would set standards for international news reporting. Western news organizations believe that the scheme would lead to increased state control of the press...