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...annually, trains black management, even leases land to employ blacks to grow agricultural produce...
ALTHOUGH the number of black journalists in the U.S. has increased over the past decade, less than 5% of all reporters and photographers are black. There is only one black syndicated columnist. There are no black managing editors on white publications. Many newspapers, particularly in the South, employ no blacks at all, except as clerks or janitors. The Washington Post, with 19 blacks out of an editorial staff of 222, is the most "integrated" large daily newspaper. The New York Times (13 blacks out of 374 editorial employees), the San Francisco Chronicle (four out of 196), the St. Louis Post...
Blacks sometimes find direct, militant action more effective than Government programs. Retailers have been an especially vulnerable target. Last week in Pittsburgh, for instance, Sears, Roebuck and Co. capitulated to a boycott by the N.A.A.C.P. and the United Black Protest Committee and agreed to employ up to 30% blacks in its city stores as well as 15% in the suburbs. Sears further pledged to conduct a black recruiting program, promote deserving blacks to management jobs and provide "sensitivity training" for all employees to acquaint them with the black workers' point of view. Beyond that, Sears will consider preferential buying...
...congressional critics of U.S. Asian policy. The major challenge came from J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Last week, in an effort to maintain congressional control over the Laotian war, the Arkansas Democrat introduced a "sense of the Senate" resolution that the President could not employ ground-or air-forces in Laos without "affirmative action" by Congress...
...employ the Agnew hook," said Arizona's Morris Udall, co-captain of the Democrats' congressional basketball team. "This ploy," he explained, involves "intimidating scowls and feigned throws at the press table, followed by a wild charge to the south end of the court while shouting slogans, epithets and five-syllable words. While the ball occasionally ends up in my mouth, 65% of the fans who have watched this maneuver approve of it." Another Udall tactic was "the Haynsworth-Carswell shuffle-sending in a series of second and third stringers, one after another, until one of them scores." Neither...