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Secondly and rather ambiguously, the Title cites the Fourteenth Amendment to outlaw any discrimination "enforced or supported by state action." The Supreme Court ruled in 1883 that this Amendment does not treat "private affairs," and it is doubtful that the Court would reverse itself. The commerce clause, however, provides sufficient legal grounds and its use will probably be upheld in court...
...FAIR EMPLOYMENT. A national equal-employment-opportunities commission is set up to outlaw discrimination in establishments employing 25 or more persons and engaged in interstate commerce. The commission can sue for enforcement in federal courts...
...Gunfighter Wyatt Earp, based on interviews with Earp before his death in 1929, sold half a million copies, inspired two movies and the TV series, established its author as an authority on the Old West despite stuffier historians' sniffs that it was "a fictionalized glorification of a tinhorn outlaw"; of a ruptured aorta; in San Diego, Calif...
With flashbacks, brief jagged confrontations, and dirty language - all of them daring deviations from stodgy stylistic norms in Stalin's time - Maximov tells how the rebellious Seryosha lives as an outlaw on the seamy side of the Soviet establishment, first stealing vegetables to sell on the black market, then working for a smuggler plying the border trade back and forth from Turkey. Eventually he is drafted to fight in World...
...military also labeled the Bosch administration "soft on Communism." They sharply criticized his refusal to outlaw the Communist party. Some leaders even charged that Bosch himself had Communist sympathies. Bosch, in turn, insisted that Betancourt's problems with terrorism in Venezuala stemmed from his suppression of the Communist party. Better to let them operate in the open, he reasoned. But the army and police, robbed of their suppressive function, disagreed...