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...federal reviewers of Harvard's Affirmative Action plan and practice. While some saw it a little differently, the overwhelming majority of the TFAA was well aware that the federal government was no friend of the students and workers struggling for democratic rights. At best, we expected the government to rubber-stamp Harvard's performance. But we were also aware that the arrival of the federal reviewers offered us a unique opportunity to bring our case to the national public and put the spotlight on the U.S. government for, not only its non-enforcement of Affirmative Action, but also its tacit...
...government's next reform will be a national yes/no referendum in October on proposals to create a bicameral legislature. The present rubber-stamp Cortes and National Council will be replaced in 1977 by a 300-member Lower House, elected by universal suffrage (long demanded by leftists). There will also be a 285-member Senate with "equal powers." Candidates for the Upper House will be put forward by an entrenched local power system that is the legacy of the Franco era: provincial authorities, government-sponsored labor unions and associations of businessmen. Forty will be members for life. The King will...
...National Security Council vetoed the separation-plant project in early 1968. Shortly afterward, Eshkol discovered that Dayan ?in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War ?had secretly ordered the start of construction on an S.P. Eshkol and his advisers felt that they could only rubber-stamp a project already under...
...delight of her fervent followers, five justices of the Supreme Court of India last week ruled that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was innocent. In separate but concurring opinions, the judges upheld the legality of the 1975 election-law amendment-passed retroactively by India's rubber-stamp Parliament after opposition members either were arrested or walked out-that changed the statutes under which Mrs. Gandhi had been found guilty of corrupt campaign practices. In essence, the ruling reversed the June Allahabad high court decision that would have barred her from holding elective office for six years...
...growing disaffection of the usually pro-Daley black voters, who make up about 30% of the electorate. With the help of a forceful civic group, the Better Government Association, the Sun-Times revealed the scandalous land deals involving Alderman Thomas Keane, the mayor's "floor leader" in the rubber-stamp city council and the city's second most powerful politician...