Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's regulations control products that account for about 25 cents of every dollar spent by consumers. HEW'S education division distributes aid to schools and colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies and for mastering the metric system. Human development services provide help for the handicapped, as well as runaway youths, abused children, Indian tribes and Alaskan natives. HEW also runs Head Start, a program that prepares disadvantaged youngsters for school. It offers vocational rehabilitation, "meals on wheels" for older people...
...mathematical representation by sex and ethnic group in institutions. The University of North Carolina, for example, now has a well-deserved reputation in the South for liberalism on race, but after a court order requiring greater efforts to accomplish integration, HEW threatened to withdraw $89 million in federal funds if the school did not increase the enrollment of blacks, who constituted 6% of the students on the main campus. The university argued that the figure was so low because blacks could not meet the school's entrance standards as well as whites. When HEW demanded that the number...
...that he is a Michigan restaurateur, he has picked up on a modish tax idea and applied it to his business. He is handing out rebates to customers. "This is my way of saying thanks," says Han, owner of Pontiac's WE or West-East Ethnic Restaurant...
...wife Maria Eugenia da Silva is white?a fact that prompted the appearance of mysterious posters in Luanda demanding "Morte a rainha branca " (Death to the white queen). An unsuccessful coup last year led by former Interior Minister Nito Alves, an Angolan black, may have been triggered by the ethnic split...
Hanoi has also twitted Peking over its concern about the Chinese in Viet Nam while it inconsistently ignores the persecution of the 500,000 ethnic Chinese in Cambodia. According to Hanoi radio, hundreds of thousands of Chinese in "Democratic Kampuchea"?the country's official name?"have been subjected to blatant repression, mass evictions and massacres." Hanoi has also strongly defended its harassment of Chinese shopkeepers on the grounds that Communism should affect everyone equally. Argued one official press release: "China is a socialist country that also underwent a difficult period, similar to what Viet Nam is now experiencing; China...