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However, few sports programs are federally funded, and the Women's Sports Foundation fears for the future support of women's athletics. Last February the Supreme Court ruled that Title IX applies only to programs receiving federal funds, not to institutions. A bill to overturn the decision is in the Senate. One problem, explains U.S. Olympic Swim Team Man ager Bev Montrella, is "we look at female gold-medal winners with the same esteem as men. But in colleges, men's athletics is still where...
...presidential search. Ferraro perhaps put more pressure on Mondale than she meant to when she suggested she would allow her name to be placed in nomination as a "symbolic gesture" if Mondale selected a man. She quickly added that she would not take part in any serious effort to overturn Mondale's choice...
...paid Claiborne $30,000 to help quash grand jury subpoenas for two of his prostitutes who had 5 been called as witnesses in a probe of voter fraud. Three months later, Conforte said, he again met with Claiborne, who suggested that he could get a federal appeals court to overturn Conforte's tax conviction. Conforte testified that the judge told him, "We need $100,000 to get things started." With that, Conforte produced $55,000 in bills and stuffed them in Claiborne's pockets...
...with election fraud when he lost the 1972 contest to Colonel Arturo Armando Molina. An important reason for the military's new attitude, of course, has been heavy pressure from the Reagan Administration, backed by the certainty of a U.S. military aid cutoff if the soldiers try to overturn the election result. "The military leaders have said that they now realize their job is to stay out of politics and fight this war," says a State Department official. Declares the Salvadoran army chief of operations, Colonel Miguel Antonio Mendéz: "In my opinion, the word coup...
...Justice Department has joined a suit by a group of ten white policemen and firemen seeking to overturn the settlement. The plaintiffs claim they have been passed over so that less qualified blacks and women can fill numerical quotas. The city, they charge, has engaged in "illegal and unconstitutional discrimination against whites and males...