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Objections to the policy prompted the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) to begin an investigation into whether the ordinance ran contrary to state civil rights laws forbidding discrimination on the basis of handicap. MCAD officials say that because AIDS is regarded as a handicap, its victims should be protected by state civil rights laws...
Several gay activists claim that policies like the one adopted by Cambridge are discriminatory, creating a special category for employees with AIDS and a panel to review their right to work. The guidelines, they say, violate city and state civil rights laws which forbid discrimination on the basis of handicap...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), an agency which enforces the state's civil rights laws, will determine in the next month whether the Cambridge AIDS policy is discriminatory, MCAD will review the guidelines to see if they discriminate on the basis of handicap...
...battered agency, the Administration brought back a former NASA administrator: James Fletcher, 66, leader of NASA from 1971 to 1977 and a physicist who headed a commission that urged Ronald Reagan to develop a Star Wars defense against missiles. The mild-mannered Fletcher comes to the post with one handicap: he has accused the Rogers commission of being engaged in a "witch-hunt...
Aside from several key scenes where the actor's back is to the audience, space is used well. The actors toss themselves (and other objects) across the stage with abandon, fully expressing the play's physicality. Felman and Rubin both overcome their age handicap, warming to their parts by the second act so that we really believe that George is "fortyish but looks 55" and Martha, six years older than that...