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When President Lyndon Johnson created affirmative action, he surely wasn't thinking, "Now I believe I'll profoundly subvert the spirit of the Civil Rights Act, the crowning achievement of my life, which became law only a year ago." Instead, the idea was that custom, ethnocentrism, poverty, bad schools, old-boy networking and a host of other factors would conspire against the new civil rights of African Americans and any real socioeconomic advancement. So L.B.J. compelled government and its contractors to look a little harder for blacks to fill job openings. Thousands of private organizations instituted affirmative-action plans...
...case officers, now overseas and undercover, have telephoned in their support for the agreement. "This agreement is not a panacea," says Joseph M. Sellers of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. "It will not change overnight what has been decades of entrenched nepotism and connections developed through an old-boy network. But I think it is a very good first step, and it holds real promise to bring that insidious process to an end over time." Unconvinced, the plaintiffs have engaged a new lawyer -- former CIA analyst Michael P. Kelley -- and hope to persuade U.S. District Judge Albert Bryan...
Another reviewer commented on the old-boy turn that the conversation had taken by saying, "Yeah, and Harvard gave us Henry Kisssinger too, anyway...
...occur on his watch. Nor did decades of sexual discrimination in the agency, which prompted 100 female case officers to threaten a class-action lawsuit. The CIA recently settled for $410,000 a suit by a senior female officer who charged that she was harassed by its old-boy network after she exposed carousing, wife beating and drunken behavior among male officers in the agency's Jamaica station. During his tenure, Woolsey worked to promote more women into the upper ranks...
...Soviet Union. Intelligence documents obtained last week by TIME, including parts of the CIA inspector general's report on the Ames case, illustrate how badly the agency bungled its handling of the agent. Strong evidence of his poor performance, and later his treason, were ignored for years by an old-boy network that included friends of Ames' father Carleton, himself a hard-drinking CIA veteran...