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Ethnicity is in at the San Francisco fire department these days. The reason: fears that a program to promote minorities will hold back those classified as Caucasian. City officials report a wave of petitioners claiming long-lost ethnic identities. One 16-year veteran, previously listed as Italian, documented Spanish ancestry to qualify as Hispanic. Some minority fire fighters, meanwhile, are complaining that the bureaucracy has changed their classifications to "white." San Francisco's civil service commission says it will consider publicizing ethnic classifications so employees can challenge colleagues suspected of making shady heritage claims...
...average annual income of Soviets is only 250 rubles, and so few can afford the luxury of tomatoes at 10 rubles for about two pounds, or beef at 30 rubles a cut. Peasants gripe that free markets in Moscow are under the control of black- marketeering middlemen from the Caucasian republics who are deliberately limiting supplies to keep prices high. Managers of state-run shops also hold back scarce goods from open sale and make a hefty profit by selling them out the back door...
Club Venus has several serious and disruptive technical problems. Most scenes are fragmented and terminated with such inexplicable abandon that we laugh in nervous exasperation, and the several scenes featuring Japanese and Caucasian puppets are superfluous. And an unannounced intermission resulted in the departure of several audience members...
Laurence Olivier OTHELLO. The acting demigod was by no means the first Caucasian to play the Moor of Venice, but this 1965 release proves that he was the finest of them...
...Mikhail Gorbachev thought he could limit the cracks in the union to the Baltic region, he has certainly been underestimating the Georgians. The 5.4 million people of this small Caucasian republic have never forgotten the brief period of independence they enjoyed between 1918 and 1921, when invading Bolshevik forces imposed Soviet rule. The Georgians contend that they were illegally forced into the union, in violation of a 1920 "noninterference" treaty with Moscow...