Word: racial
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...President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The measure has been denounced for creating a legal and social nightmare and praised as one of the most important tools for ending discrimination in the U.S. It requires firms that do business with the Federal Government to take "affirmative action" to eliminate racial bias in employment. To enforce the order, the Labor Department in 1968 began requiring that contractors set numerical goals for blacks, other minorities and women in hiring, promotion...
Encouraged by South African officials, the outside world had expected the President to unveil a package of far-reaching reforms aimed at gradually dismantling his white minority government's policies of racial separation. Instead, Botha held out a vague and tentative suggestion of negotiations with the country's disenfranchised black majority as the solution for South Africa's worst crisis in more than two decades. Among other things, he invoked the prospect of unspecified future constitutional discussions involving "all South African citizens," presumably including the country's 24 million blacks. He implicitly admitted the failure of the country's much...
...Rather, he discoursed at length about Soviet notions of individual freedom: freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom to secure health care--freedoms, he implied, that were not universally enjoyed by Americans. He was not sparing in his criticism of America's abuse of its own racial minorities...
...city's whites; to the west live most of its blacks and other minorities. In what may turn out to be a landmark civil rights decision, Federal Judge Leonard Sand ruled last week that the deliberate concentration of low-income housing projects on Yonkers' west side resulted in a racially segregated public school system that "has clearly worked to the disadvantage of minority students." It was the first time that a single case linked racial discrimination in housing and schools...
...South Africa, an elite group of American business executives, met in London two weeks ago with their South African counterparts. While the participants, who included the chief executive officers of General Motors and Citibank, have kept a tight lid on the proceedings, it is assumed that strategies to hasten racial reform were discussed. Meanwhile another group, representing the 186 U.S. companies that subscribe to a code of fair employment practices known as the Sullivan Principles, sent a telex to the South African government urging Botha to "lower tensions" in the schools of the country's black townships...