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...idea for the conference stemmed from an era of insensitivity and outright hostility to minority concerns. In the past decade the Justice Department stopped actively seeking civil rights cases to prosecute, and instead dedicated itself to rolling back affirmative action and other minority gains. These attempts culminated in a recent Supreme Court decision which declared unconstitutional a Richmond program requiring 30 percent of the city's contracts to be awarded to minority contractors and thereby jeopardized all government-sponsored affirmative action programs...
...foes of gun control, have lessened their opposition -- at least when it comes to paramilitary weapons. Deukmejian now calls for a 15-day waiting period for the purchase of assault rifles. Gates would apply the waiting period to purchases of all kinds of guns, and has called for an outright ban on paramilitary weapons. Says he: "We have been too tolerant. There is no need for citizens to have highly sophisticated military assault rifles designed for the sole purpose of killing people on the battlefield...
...there have been no outright takers, but a few colleges have negotiated deals that stop short of selling their independence. This spring Warner Pacific College, a small (enrollment: 400) church-affiliated school in Portland, Ore., is expected to approve the sale of 49% of its physical plant to Amvic International, a Japanese company that operates English-language schools in Japan. The $6 million price tag includes an agreement to lease the facilities to the college for 30 years and to make the firm's president a regent of the school. The transaction benefits both parties: Amvic's direct link with...
...wrong," says William Burns, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. "I think we want to re-establish that." The U.S. hopes that the Paris meeting will pump momentum into the Conference on Disarmament, a 40-nation effort to write a treaty that would ban the gases outright. As an interim step, several participants want to strengthen the U.N. Secretary-General's authority to investigate charges of chemical-weapons...
Although the Harvard women's basketball team finished tied for first place in the Ivy League, the squad ended the season on a sour note. The Crimson lost a chance at capturing an outright title when it fell to eventual Co-Champion Dartmouth in the season finale, 72-65, at Briggs Cage...