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...trifle disingenuous. Had he simply wanted Congress to reaffirm the policy of denying tax exemptions to discriminatory schools, he could have submitted such legislation before revoking the rule. Even that could have been interpreted as an un necessary reopening of an old controversy. Congress clearly forbade any Government sanction of, or support for, racial bias in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1970 the IRS applied the policy by withholding tax breaks to discriminatory schools, and the Supreme Court later ruled that this was a correct reading of the law and the Constitution. Argues a civil rights advocate within...
...Europeans also believe that Reagan refused to invoke the only effective economic sanction against Moscow, an embargo of U.S. grain, simply because he did not want to hurt American farmers. Nonetheless, they complain, the President expects the allies to ban the export of high technology to the U.S.S.R. and shelve plans for building a 3,000-mile natural-gas pipeline from Siberia to West Germany. "These measures would be much more costly to us than anything the U.S. has done," insists a French official. "If the U.S. were to cut off grain sales, then perhaps it could ask Europe...
...Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger learned firsthand on a trip through Europe to drum up support for the sanctions, the Europeans are opposed to punishing the Soviet Union unless it openly intervenes in Poland. At the heart of the allied opposition is the belief that sanctions, no matter how well meaning, do not work. As one Italian politician noted cynically, "Carter adopted sanctions against the Soviets to get them out of Afghanistan. They still are in Afghanistan." Said a British trade official: "Trade is a very difficult sanction to apply; like water, it will always find a way through...
...agreement vests all legal responsibility in the student government and "just lets the University off the hook," Terry Nolan, student government president, said, adding that under the agreement, all film advertisements must include a disclaimer stating the "the University does not sponsor" or sanction the showing of the film...
...that the Court drop Dayan's case for lack of evidence, Curry sided strongly with the French entrepreneur. "Given the high level intrigue and high level entry within this major corporation that the Dayan suit provoked, I am satisfied that a prima facie case has been made. With the sanction of termination so extreme and heavy, the court should not deny the fullest range of testimony...