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Miami's black community, which makes up 16% of the local population, is particularly resentful. Garth Reeves, publisher of the black Miami Times, warns of black hostility because of competition with Hispanics for low-cost public housing and lower-level service jobs that formerly were a black preserve. Says Reeves: "Before the Cuban influx, blacks had most of the hotel jobs, now they have less than 2%." One reason for this decline is that many jobs now require both English and Spanish, and most blacks do not speak the latter...
...Appeals Court decision that the minority plank in the student government at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ordered the appellate court to reconsider its decision in light of the recent Bakke decision. But the Appeals Court decision is reconsidered, the lower-level decision favorable to the UNC minority plank--made by a district court judge in Durham, North Carolina...
...unsettling feeling that the Camp David summit has been somewhat ill prepared for. It is usually a firm rule of summitry that the participants arrive with a fairly clear idea of the outcome. Mostly, they ratify agreements that have already been worked out in intense negotiations by lower-level officials. Often even the concluding communiques are drafted before the parties formally take their seats. This tradition is designed to avoid the dangers of high-level misunderstandings and wounded national pride. But Camp David is unique; a high U.S. official calls it a "virginal experience." It is convening with very little...
...lower-level employees, following the firm out to the suburbs can be onerous, involving a daily "reverse" commute from the city or a hard search for affordable housing. For this reason, companies are sometimes accused of leaving New York City for racist reasons, even though some of the firms have increased their minority employment. The percentage of blacks and Hispanics working in office and clerical jobs at Olin, for example, has risen from 13% to 16%. Minorities account for a fifth of Stamford's population, and, says Champion International President Andrew Sigler: "We are lined up twelve-deep...
...that poor people would suffer drastically may not materialize. The legislature did decree, however, that there be no increase in welfare payments unless public employees also get a pay hike. Brown has already asked for a freeze on state salaries. Since it would seem to be political suicide for lower-level officials to vote increases for themselves at a time when the taxpayers are screaming so loudly for less spending, welfare payments probably will be frozen...