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...that this is a month of relentless gaiety. News events of August include the collapse of 330-lb. William ("the Refrigerator") Perry at the Chicago Bears football training camp; the Bears' defensive coach called the overstuffed Refrigerator, who has a four-year contract worth $1.3 million, "a wasted draft choice and a waste of money." Other news: road repairs in Duluth, Minn.; the annual reunion of the 450-member Robinson family in Cleveland; the opening of a shopping center in St. Louis, where a time capsule received contributions of old draft cards, snapshots of pet dogs...
Rousing this chorus of commentary last week was a three-page discussion draft prepared by White House aides as a possible addition to Executive Order No. 11246, issued by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The measure has been denounced for creating a legal and social nightmare and praised as one of the most important tools for ending discrimination in the U.S. It requires firms that do business with the Federal Government to take "affirmative action" to eliminate racial bias in employment. To enforce the order, the Labor Department in 1968 began requiring that contractors set numerical goals for blacks, other...
...draft amendment reflects the Reagan Administration's concern that firms are engaging in "reverse discrimination" to meet numerical goals. As leaked to reporters last week, the proposed revision states that the order does not require businesses "to utilize any numerical quota, goal or ratio, or otherwise to discriminate against or grant any preference to any individual or group on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." It adds that "a failure to adopt or attain any statistical measures" would not, by itself, be wrong...
...Warming will also cause reductions in mountain glaciers and advance the timing of the melt in snow peaks in polar regions." OMITTED SENTENCE, in a U.S. draft report on global warming. The sentence was part of a section crossed out by Philip Cooney, White House Council on Environmental Quality chief of staff (and former oil industry lobbyist), whose edit note says the section was "straying from research strategy into speculative findings...
...would if I could just write a draft and hand it to them and say, "Here, shoot this." But you get into it with all these experts sitting around at the table, and they're all telling you, "Well, why doesn't he say this? Why doesn't he say that?" And then they all take off, and you sit there in your hotel room, writing the screenplay. That's no fun. This has got to be fun, or else it's not worth doing...