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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treat individuals differently on the basis of their race, yet this is precisely what affirmative action quotas require. Under these quotas individuals are hired for jobs or admitted to schools with their racial, sexual or ethnic backgrounds as a key reason for selection. As a result, other people lose school or job opportunities because they are from the wrong race, sex or minority group. Such quota programs are inherently racist and unjust...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: Abolish Affirmative Action Quotas | 5/25/1976 | See Source »

Pride and Power. If his opponents somehow coalesced to block him, they would make the whole primary campaign look like a charade and probably lose the South, which increasingly views the Georgian as the man who has brought pride and power to the region. Thus, the D.N.C. is already preparing for the July convention and the fall campaign on the premise he will be the candidate. Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss officially must remain neutral, but he also expects to avoid a deadlock or a bloodbath at Madison Square Garden. He told a party luncheon last week: "I made a commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Meanwhile, on the Carter Chase | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...Carter seems headed toward easy victories in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky (total: 118 delegates). Says Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane of Carter: "He's maturing like good Kentucky bourbon." He probably will lose most of Idaho's 16 delegates to Native Son Church and most of Nevada's eleven to Neighbor Brown. In Oregon, which has 34 delegates, Carter was narrowly ahead, but Church's strength was growing; he has spent eleven days so far this year in his next-door state, which Carter-spread thin-has not visited since 1975. The race gained another candidate last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Meanwhile, on the Carter Chase | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...limited the fame of any journalist, especially a foreigner, is, in America. But about success. As I said when interviewed by Esquire, "There's nothing that changes one like success. Success, if you're not stupid, is a marvelous way to grow up. And power. Of course. You lose your complexes and become more secure. Success and power. You grow up if you can use them well...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Monologue With History | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...have. On freedom of the press issues I speak out--that's on the basis that if we don't, who's going to? On the Vietnam War, that was a conscious decision. There was a feeling on everyone's part that, all right, you're going to lose some credibility and some people are not going to agree with you, but it has come to a time when being, quote, The Most Trusted Man, perhaps you can tell the people, lay it on the line, just how it looks...

Author: By Richard Smith, | Title: The Politician Behind the Performer | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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