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Union officials in San Antonio and elsewhere were delighted by the new court position, which should result in moderately increased overtime pay for some municipal workers. Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said the decision ends nine years of "second-class citizenship" for public employees. Backers of local autonomy were shocked. "The court sits as arbiter of power among levels and branches of government," complains Lawrence Velvel, former chief counsel of the State and Local Legal Center in Washington. "That's its role. When the majority throws up its hands because...
...President Bok to advise the Harvard Corporation "concerning the social and ethical implications of the choices it must make as a major shareholder in many companies," according to the University. The creation of the Committee constituted a formal recognition of the fact that in certain circumstances, considerations of good citizenship on the University's part supersede economic calculation...
...protesters said they will continue civil disobedience until the company stops its Krugerrand sales, which they said gives economics support to a government that demies citizenship and many civil liberties to Blacks...
...carries out these indignities through criminal law and police action is fundamentally inconsistent with these values. South African apartheid is such a system. South Africa's policies of racial discrimination are built into the constitution and laws and enforced through the civil and criminal courts. Blacks are denied citizenship, educational and economic opportunity, personal mobility, due process of law, and most civil rights and liberties. For these reasons, all of us unequivocally condemn apartheid...
Almost ninety years ago, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a prophetic dissent to the Supreme Court decision in Plessy V. Ferguson, upholding state-imposed segregation in the United States Harlan condemned mandated segregation as "inconsistent not only with that equality of rights which pertains to citizenship, but with the personal liberty enjoyed by everyone in the United States....The destinies of the races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be placed under the sanction of law." The spirit of Harlan's dissent underlies...