Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS MONDAY, the Supreme Court proved that the country needs the Equal Rights Amendment. In a seven-to-two decision, it let stand three federal court rulings, which allow the government to continue funding school districts that discriminate on the basis of sex in employment. The Court's refusal to review these cases repudiated the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's attempt to use the 1972 amendments to the federal education law to outlaw sex discrimination...
...fact, an interagency White House task force last week reported that there is a "substantial risk" of a drop in OPEC output of as much as 3 million bbl., an amount just about equal to total current Iranian production. The drop would be caused by expected cutbacks early next year by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Nigeria and Libya. Thus oil prices stand to rise considerably even if Iran does not reduce its current production...
...Thatcher government, was instrumental in persuading the Front to accept a compromise. Mugabe and Nkomo dropped their original demands for a share of political power and the integration of their military forces with Salisbury's army during the transition period. In exchange, Carrington satisfied their longstanding insistence on "equal status" with the Salisbury forces by including the sentence that the guerrillas would be subject to the orders of an interim British commander. Spokesmen for the Muzorewa delegation called the 15-word addendum a face-saving artifice to mask "a total capitulation by the Patriotic Front to the original British...
...exact legal standing during the cease-fire and election campaign, left ambiguous in the Carrington proposal, sparked a bitter verbal exchange between members of the rival delegations. Following the formal negotiating session, Salisbury's military commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, branded as "nonsense" the guerrillas' claim to equal status with his troops. "If anybody shoots at us," he warned ominously, "we will stop them from shooting any more." Front Spokesman Eddison Zvogbo angrily replied that "we are legal forces, we have equal status," and promised "severe retribution" against those who moved to deny that status...
Meanwhile, Chrysler's rescue plans move sluggishly. Under the Government's $1.5 billion loan guarantee plan, the company must come up with an equal amount of outside help. But banks are showing reluctance to sink more money into the troubled company. Chrysler thus last week was asked by the Government to step up its so far futile efforts for a possible joint venture with a Japanese or European car firm in order to raise additional cash...