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...vetoing it while Mandela is still in the U.S. The bill seeks to lessen the effect of several recent Supreme Court decisions that diluted existing federal affirmative-action and antidiscrimination law. In particular, the rulings made it harder for victims of discrimination to prove bias and bring lawsuits for redress in court. Bush has insisted that he will veto the bill if it is not amended to correct provisions that he says could have the effect of requiring employers to adopt racial quotas in hiring...
...infant mortality and pollution. Conservatives have been attracted by his strong personality and persuasive public speaking. The Front claims that Gorbachev is dividing the society into rich and poor and that the workers are getting poorer. But the Front has not been successful in elections so far, and to redress the balance, it demands a fixed percentage of parliamentary seats for workers...
Udall sold his house in a Washington suburb and moved to Phoenix, where for eleven impecunious years he fought unsuccessfully in the courts to obtain redress. Judges consistently held that the Government could not be held liable, even though it knew of the danger from radiation and kept the victims in the dark. More than 1,000 stricken miners "were sacrificed for cold war nuclear weapons," says Utah Democratic Congressman Wayne Owens...
...accepted more than half the blacks who applied but only one-third of the whites, even though the blacks' average Scholastic Aptitude Test scores were 194 points below the whites'. At a time of rising competition, and with no sense of the past injustice that affirmative action seeks to redress, white students use such statistics as battering rams. "Affirmative action is organized governmental racism against white people," charges Temple University student Michael Spletzer, co-founder of the White Student Union. "Individual merit should be the only criterion...
Congress is finally moving to redress this lingering wrong. Last week a Senate energy subcommittee held a hearing in Shiprock, N. Mex., on legislation that would provide $100 million in compensation to miners and their families. As part of that sum, up to $50,000 would be granted to people exposed to radiation as a result of nuclear-bomb tests. The Justice Department, however, opposes the bill, arguing that the compensation amounts to a costly "entitlement program...