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Last week, in two major civil rights decisions, the Supreme Court demonstrated its rightward drift. In an anxiously watched North Carolina case, the high bench unanimously reaffirmed a 13-year-old precedent prohibiting racial discrimination in making and enforcing private contracts. But by a vote of 5 to 4 -- with all Reagan appointees in the majority -- the Justices refused to extend the ruling to cover racial harassment in the workplace. Just three days earlier, in a case involving Birmingham fire fighters, the same five significantly lowered the barriers protecting court-approved affirmative- action programs from challenges by white workers...
...rightward shift on civil rights began to quicken in January, when the Justices ruled 6 to 3 that affirmative-action programs may be approved only after the strictest judicial scrutiny. The pattern became clearer two weeks ago when, by the now familiar 5-to-4 vote, the court gave large companies accused of discrimination a crucial procedural win. The Justices held that, contrary to previous doctrine, it is employees who must prove that imbalances in the racial makeup of their employer's work force result from practices that have no valid business justification. That ruling provoked a biting dissent from...
...back to the congregation, blames sex education for promoting a "Communist takeover of our society" and deems AIDS a form of divine punishment. After giving grudging approval to his nomination, the Salzburg cathedral chapter publicly proclaimed its "severe conflict of conscience" about the selection process and criticized the rightward imbalance of the Pope's list...
...event for weeks afterward. The left attacked her as a pawn of the right and the right as a latecomer to anti- Communism. Sontag was stunned by the response, especially the assumption that her rejection of Communism was a recent development or that it signaled a sharp move rightward on her part. As early as 1971, she points out, she was protesting Cuba's imprisonment of writers like the poet Heberto Padilla, now a friend living in the U.S. She also insists that her views are not the result of the close friendships she has formed with writers in exile...
ALTHOUGH abortion will be a key stumbling block to courting the religious vote, it need not be insurmountable. Evangelicals have distrusted George Bush's sincerity on the issue, since he shifted rightward to curry their support in 1980. And Reagan has done little to overturn Roe v. Wade. Even considering the Republican's pro-life platform, as one politician said, the party's concern for human life begins at conception and ends at birth; yet, evengelicals purportedly want to save and help people throughout their lives...