Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson said that the NAACP is fighting for civil rights in the '70s by getting corporations to create more jobs for minority group members. The NAACP is concentrating on employment because "you have to survive to deal with civil rights," she said...
Airline Deregulation. The Civil Aeronautics Board was deprived of its power to control airline fares and routes. The airlines will be able to cut fares by 50% and initiate service to additional cities-but no more than one new route each year -without asking the CAB for approval...
...many of the journalists, civil libertarians and other citizens who have rallied to the cause of jailed New York Times Reporter Myron Farber have ever heard of Joe Pennington. But Pennington is facing a 60-day jail term for refusing to reveal his source in a murder case he covered last year for Wichita, Kans.' KAKE-TV-the same principled stand that put Farber behind bars...
...head the Stage 2 program, Carter would like to name Alfred Kahn, a somewhat ironic choice. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn became famous for freeing airlines from burdensome federal regulation. As overseer of the guidelines, he would be in charge of much greater Government intervention in the private economy. But Kahn has built a towering reputation in Washington as a bureaucrat who gets things done. A vastly energetic but informal official who often pads about his office in stocking feet, Kahn is a trained economist who believes that the greatest challenge to his profession "is deciding...
Though the program sounds tough, parts of it are misleading. The federal hiring freeze probably will be presented as an act of spartan self-denial by the Administration. Actually, Carter has no choice: a little-noticed amendment to the Civil Service Reform Act requires him to reduce the number of Government employees, now 2.3 million, to 2.2 million by next October. More important, Administration officials have been making much of the fact that the Government awards some $80 billion in federal contracts each year, in theory giving it powerful leverage in forcing companies to comply with the guidelines. In fact...