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...problem is that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act seems to prohibit special benefits to either sex. Friedan, who has drawn most of the heat in a fairly calm debate, surprised many feminists by repudiating the equal-rights stance that the women's movement has taken for years. "The time has come to acknowledge that women are different from men," she says. "There has to be a concept of equality that takes into account that women are the ones who have the babies...
...Initiative, or Star Wars, the plan for a space-based antimissile shield. Gorbachev's letter proposed linking cuts in offensive missiles to an agreement by both countries to honor for at least 15 more years the 1972 antiballistic-missi le agreement, which would confine SDI to laboratory research and prohibit development, testing and deployment. As Reagan was taking flak at home and abroad for announcing that he planned to abandon the SALT II treaty, Gorbachev showed new signs of flexibility at the Geneva arms-control talks...
Antismoking champions cheered the ruling. Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar last month introduced legislation that would strictly prohibit any tobacco ads. Such a ban could seriously hurt the financial health of many newspapers and magazines that rely heavily on their share of the nearly $3 billion a year spent by the tobacco industry on advertising and promotion. The ruling could spur a similar push to bar liquor ads. With the constitutional obstacles now largely out of the way, the tugging and pulling of lobbyists and lawmakers will decide whose commercial message is interrupted...
...ruled that an employer who genuinely fears a spread of contagion can fire an AIDS victim without violating his federal civil rights. Snapped a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The decision is nothing more than a pretext for discrimination." And in California, an initiative that could prohibit AIDS victims from attending or teaching school and working in restaurants was certified for placement on the November ballot. The measure was put forward by followers of the perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche...
Justice William J. Brennan, in the court's majority opinion, said: "We hold that [federal law] does not prohibit a court from ordering, in appropriate circumstances, affirmative race-conscious relief as a remedy for past discrimination...