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The fate of the Soviet dissidents will undoubtedly be added to Vance's agenda for his sixth meeting with Gromyko in 16 months. Other matters that are sure to be discussed will be the latest developments in the Middle East, the continued Soviet intervention in Africa and the mounting...
At issue was an affirmative-action program, the largest in the nation, that affects 780,000 employees of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The 1973 plan was negotiated by several federal agencies, including the Labor Department's Contract Compliance Office and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which had charged...
Minority leaders and federal affirmative-action officials saw this development as further support by the court for their efforts. In Portland, Ore., addressing an anxious convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, hailed the court...
...Atlanta's Fulton County, for example, the commissioners had completed last April an affirmative action plan that would add black employees to the county's payroll at the rate of 4% per year over the next five years, boosting their proportion from 26.6% to 46.6%-the percentage of blacks in the county's total labor force. But when Fulton County Attorney Robert Young read the Supreme Court's Bakke ruling, he told the commissioners that parts of their new hiring plan were illegal. County affirmative-action officers, said Young, "would direct department heads not to hire...
For five years this controversy has swirled around the coastal community of Seabrook (pop. 5,300), with the fortunes of battle favoring first one side, then the other. At issue is a $2.3 billion nuclear power plant that New England power companies, led by Public Service Co. of New Hampshire...