Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans want to spend a lot of money to try to deal with the problem-let them. The Reagan defense spending programs will really begin to bite into domestic programs twelve to 18 months from now. Congressmen hearing neutralist noises from Europe could well revive something like the Mansfield Amendment, the Montana Senator's annual proposal, back in the 1960s, for reduction of U.S. forces in Europe...
...nuclear question has strained U.S.-Japanese ties before. In 1974 retired Seventh Fleet Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque told the U.S. Congress substantially what Reischauer told Mainichi Shimbun. At the time the U.S. simply reassured Japan that it was not violating the agreement. Now, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mike Mansfield has again advised Tokyo that the U.S. is honoring its commitments. Suzuki cites his own proof: since the U.S. has never asked for the "prior consultations" required for admitting a nuclear-armed vessel, he concludes serenely that "no nuclear weapons have ever been brought into Japan...
Pockets of resistance, notably Mansfield, remained opposed to the proposal. "Any attempt to introduce any other factor" besides merit into tenure decisions. Mansfield says, "will quickly take us into trouble. Tenure decisions are always hard--the temptation to temper justice with charity is always there and must be fought against constantly." Considerations like potential contribution to the University community should not affect the decisions, be argues, saying that the use of such criteria "would be like choosing the Boston Celties for what they can contribute to race relations in Boston...
...side of the issue, faculty members including Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, professor of Government, and Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, contend that affirmative action implies absolute color and sex blindness...
...Both Mansfield and Glazer equate minority and women- hitting targets of any kind with quotas and argue that by instituting these the federal governemnt is employing a form of reverse discrimination...