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...that preserves many race-and-sex-based preferences in federal programs while eliminating abuses and inequities. Addressing an audience at the National Archives, Clinton said: "We should have a simple slogan: mend it, but don't end it." Making a start, the President directed federal departments to end or revamp any program that "creates a quota, creates preferences for unqualified individuals, creates reverse discrimination or continues even after its equal opportunity purposes have been achieved." Though popular Republican attacks on quotas clearly forced the action,TIME's James Carneysays the White House decided the President could make the best...
Three new tenured faculty members, a new sophomore tutorial system and a new track system are just the beginning of the effort to revamp the department's much-criticized undergraduate program...
...more congressional proposals. G.O.P. leaders in the House postponed a vote on their foreign-aid bill after the President blasted its cuts and its "isolationist" policy directives as a "frontal assault" on presidential authority. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman warned that a presidential veto would await any attempt to revamp the federal food-stamp program into a block-grant package to the states...
...vote of 98 to 0, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to become the new director of the C.I.A. Deutch will arrive at the troubled spy agency, which has been demoralized by the Aldrich Ames and other scandals, with a mandate to review priorities, revamp operations and replace top personnel...
...same time, Chirac intends to revamp the educational system and maintain the country's generous network of social and health benefits. When asked how he can simultaneously lower taxes, subsidize employment and boost salaries while cutting a $92 billion public deficit, Chirac likes to respond with an aphorism: "Politics is not just the art of the possible, it is sometimes the art of making possible what is necessary." Specifically, he has called for a major audit of state spending to identify and eliminate waste. He also intends to use proceeds from privatization to draw down the national debt...