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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Texaco agreed to pay $140 million in one of the largest employee race-discrimination lawsuits to date. The two-year-old lawsuit had dominated headlines for the past two weeks, and prompted calls by Jesse Jackson for a boycott of the firm, after the release of a secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texaco Will Pay Historic Settlement | 11/15/1996 | See Source »

Proposition 209 began as the brainchild of two university professors, and in an Orwellian twist it became known as the California Civil Rights Initiative. A few weeks before Election Day, its supporters even considered running television advertisements featuring Martin Luther King Jr. in a perverse attempt to bolster public opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golden State Backlash | 11/13/1996 | See Source »

Jesse Helms, you're grounded! That's the goal of the North Carolina PAC Mothers Against Jesse in Congress (MAJIC). The group of mostly sixtysomething mothers and grandmothers, which includes conservatives offended by Helms' stand against AIDS research and their gay children, produced a harsh TV ad to chastise him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHERS KNOW BEST? | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

Weld has taken a harsh line on welfare, spoken favorably of Bob Dole's irresponsible tax cutting plan and been lukewarm in his support for sustaining government's role in education. He has taken a superficial approach to combatting crime, calling for stiffer sentences and manadatory minimums while ignoring the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerry Is the Best Choice for Senate | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

Funderburk, a protege of Jesse Helms and a former Ambassador to Romania, is the first Republican to win the Second District this century. Like Helms, Funderburk thinks food stamps are wasteful--as is aid to countries that are not our friends. Democrats determined to get their seat back hope that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NORTH CAROLINA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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