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...quota systems. "Our concept of affirmative action," says Mark Schultz, an official of the national Chamber of Commerce, "has always included the belief that the road to equal employment should not pave the way for discrimination against others." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes insisted last week that the draft, which is scheduled for discussion at a future working group of the Cabinet, was "in the early stages." He added, "It certainly has not been presented to the President. Therefore, it has no standing whatsoever as Administration policy...
...When a draft of the resolution first began to circulate last month, Marcos called a late-night caucus at which he told party leaders that he was seriously considering calling snap presidential elections this year, well before his current six-year term ends in May 1987. He also spoke of dissolving the national assembly and seeking a totally fresh mandate. Said one party member who attended the meeting: "I've never seen the President panicked until...
Late last week the meeting broke into small groups to discuss what sort of recommendations to send to the Pope. The bishops have already commissioned a five-member committee to draft a statement to the world's Christians on Vatican II. Nonetheless, it was unclear whether any concrete proposals for new interpretations of the council would emerge before the synod's close on Dec. 8. --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Daniela Simpson and Wilton Wynn/Rome
Buckley provided evidence of that earlier this year while vacationing aboard a yacht off the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. With the help of an Epson PX-8 lap-size machine, he fired off a 7,500-word draft of a children's book in two hours, a feat that can be compared with writing a college term paper during lunch break and getting it published. The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey (Workman, $10.95) is a morality tale for children from eight to 13, in which a demonical IBM 4341 mainframe teaches a New England prep-school student that computing...
Most of the first leases were for two or three years, but they are now being extended, usually for 15 years and as long as 30 years on grazing land. Under a 1985 law the leases can be inherited. Peasants own their draft animals, and those who prosper can buy machinery; ownership of tractors has burgeoned from 90,000 to 290,000 in the past two years. Though the state retains the power to cancel a peasant family's lease and award it to someone else, that power is rarely exercised. Farm families are increasingly regarding the good earth...