Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take up SALT today, it probably wouldn't make it." Cranston notes that even advocates of arms control are reserving judgment on SALT II until they see the final shape of the accord. He estimates that roughly 40 Senators favor the prospective arms limitation pact and an equal number are undecided, while a hard core of 20 are opposed. It takes only 34 votes to block approval. Cranston feels, however, that with a good treaty, "the battle for SALT is winnable given the time to prepare...
...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 the phone company with job discrimination. Although it did not admit to that allegation, AT&T agreed to make payments totaling $15 million to compensate 15,000 workers, mostly women, who were said to be victims of past promotion and salary discrimination...
...Washington, D.C., organizers of Sunday's pro-Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) march, which drew 100,000 heavily-recruited supporters, were making their final preparations for the rally to save their endangered legislation. The ratification deadline for the bill falls next March, and it is highly unlikely that the necessary three more states will approve the amendment before then. Illinois failed last month after three increasingly futile and bitter attempts; several months ago Kentucky rescinded its approval, as did South Carolina. Failing the necessary 38 states, pro-ERA factions are pursuing a bill in Congress that would extend the deadline until...
...Senate sponsors of the Civil Rights Act insisted that it provided only for equal opportunity, not racial preference or balance. Said the late Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Title VII does not require an employer to achieve any sort of racial balance in his work force by giving preferential treatment to any individual or group." Added Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr.: "An employer with only white employees could continue to have only the best-qualified persons even if they were all white...
Celibacy. "I just can't accept the notion that a married Protestant minister, all other things being equal, is as free to serve his people as is the celibate Catholic priest ... Nor is there any evidence from the research done that celibate priests are any more insensitive or incapable of intimacy than are married men of the same age and educational experience...