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...issue has also arisen in Wyoming's Federal District Court. Wyoming's Associated General Contractors are suing the Economic Development Administration to test a U.S. law requiring that 10% of certain federal funds be set aside for minority-owned firms. Judge Ewing Kerr says that he will not reach a decision until the Bakke ruling is handed down...
...that might suit him for a while would be Governor General of Australia, a country that Charles has loved since his six months there as a student. The post has been a touchy one ever since Governor General Sir John Kerr, in order to break a parliamentary deadlock in 1975, used long dormant powers to sack Conservative Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and call for new elections. Kerr last year resigned, turning the job over to the Australian-born academic Sir Zelman Cowen. But after Cowen has had another four or five years in office, says a source close to Buckingham...
...staffers of a single newspaper, the New York Times. Correspondent Henry Kamm, 52, won the international reporting prize for articles on the plight of Vietnamese refugees. Columnist William Safire, 48, and a bestselling novelist (Full Disclosure), was cited for his pieces on Bert Lance's financial dealings. Walter Kerr, 64, was singled out for his urbane theater criticism...
...education some $2 billion a year to carry out such federally mandated programs as affirmative action and regulations issued by agencies like OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). And there are incidental expenses. A single affirmative-action study at Berkeley, for example, generated 50,000 computer calculations. Complains Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California system and now Chairman of the Carnegie Council Policy Studies in Higher Education: "Such details as how many native American Indians the classics department, which now has about five people, should employ by the year 2003 was required by Federal Government planning...
...Kerr's complaints are echoed by Johns Hopkins President Steven Muller, who objects to the Government's practice of requiring universities to supply the same information to more than one federal agency. Last year the Internal Revenue Service did a full audit of Hopkins. "We spent literally thousands of hours of staff time answering the same questions for them that we had answered for the General Accounting Office," says Muller. "Then they wanted to look at our affirmative-action programs-information we had already given to the Office of Civil Rights...