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AFFIRMATIVE action helped create a prosperous Black middle class during the 1970s, but it has probably done much to stir racial tensions between Blacks and whites as well. Moreover, the framers of the 1964 Civil Rights Act never envisioned their legislation as the precursor to quotas and set-asides. In a speech on the Senate floor before passage of the 1964 Act, Hubert Humphrey declared that Title VII, which bans racial and sex discrimination, "does not provide that any quota systems may be established to maintain racial balance in employment...
...status quo," says a businessman. "We assume it will bring an improvement in the integrity of the government." From Washington's viewpoint, however, pushing Fahd and family down the fast track to Westernization and democratization is a likely prescription for a Shah-like disaster. Swift liberalizations could easily stir religious extremists to revolt. "If there's an internal threat to the kingdom," says a U.S. expert on Saudi Arabia, "it's from fundamentalists on the right, not liberalizers on the left...
...black protesters last March, killing five people and wounding 200. The direct cause of the shootings was a lack of discipline and control over the ranks, said the report, and the commission recommended that the officers be prosecuted. In another memorandum, prominent church leaders charged that police helped stir up the recent black rampages in the townships around Johannesburg that left more than 500 people dead...
Peter Schweizer, an analyst with the little-known American Foreign Policy Council, created a stir last week when he wrote in the New York Times that 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet advisers were in Iraq with access to the top leadership. Therefore, he said, Moscow "almost certainly" knew about the Kuwait invasion ahead of time and may have abetted...
...common misconception that summer research assistants seldom transcend the menial duties of an academic "go-fer," Goodarzi and others say. Summer interns are frequently portrayed as slaves to the xerox machine, pausing only to stir the professor's coffee. Interns are quick to counter, however, that they are usually assigned a full range of research tasks, often personally assisting the professor with important projects...