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Someday soon, surely much sooner than most people who filled out their Census forms last week realize, white Americans will become a minority group. Long before that day arrives, the presumption that the "typical" U.S. citizen is someone who traces his or her descent in a direct line to Europe will be part of the past. By the time these elementary students at Brentwood Science Magnet School in Brentwood, Calif., reach mid-life, their diverse ethnic experience in the classroom will be echoed in neighborhoods and workplaces throughout...
...Hispanic or nonwhite will have more than doubled, to nearly 115 million, while the white population will not be increasing at all. By 2056, when someone born today will be 66 years old, the "average" U.S. resident, as defined by Census statistics, will trace his or her descent to Africa, Asia, the Hispanic world, the Pacific Islands, Arabia -- almost anywhere but white Europe...
...leaflet from a friend. A cooperative venture called EXODUS was announcing plans for a special event to take place at 4 a.m. on March 13. Anyone seeking information was advised to call Katerli's home telephone. A noted author of moral parables, Katerli is of Jewish, Russian and Polish descent and has become used to such crude ethnic provocations ever since she started drawing public attention to anti-Semitism in the Russian nationalist movement...
...predict that by the middle of the next century, people of African descent will have disappeared altogether," she said...
...full-fledged budget, which calls for expenditures of $1.23 trillion in fiscal 1991. Budget Director Richard Darman was able to squeeze under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit target of $64 billion but only by using assumptions that call for a quick rebound in economic growth, coupled with a rapid descent of interest rates. Many economists view that combination as highly implausible. While the Administration predicts economic growth of 2.6% in 1990 and 3.3% in 1991, the blue-chip survey of 51 economists puts the figures...