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The Montana state Senate caved in to popular demand today when it overturned a provision of a sex-offender bill that would have required people convicted of homosexual acts to register with police. The voice vote to ax the provision without debate came after the state Legislature was flooded with...
Yet thanks to affirmative action, a set of programs designed to help the disadvantaged, Frank Washington stands to benefit from a subsidy worth at least $400 million. Simply because he is black, Washington and his partners were able to make a special tax deferral part of their $2.3 billion acquisition...
But the deal may not go through, and with its demise the three-decade-old edifice of affirmative action may begin to crumble. Over Frank Washington's protests of unfair treatment, the House voted to repeal the FCC tax provision, and the Senate Finance Committee is poised this week to...
And for all that activity, there is yet precious little to show--at least in terms of laws on the books. The only provision of the Contract with America that has cleared both houses and been signed by Clinton is the one applying federal labor laws to Congress.
Having proved itself incapable of controlling the country and crushing the rebellion, the government has batted aside the offer of an olive branch. Under a conference sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church in Rome two months ago, the F.I.S. actually agreed to renounce violence. But fearful that the plan's...