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...issue was an affirmative-action program, the largest in the nation, that affects 780,000 employees of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The 1973 plan was negotiated by several federal agencies, including the Labor Department's Contract Compliance Office and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which had charged the phone company with job discrimination. Although it did not admit to that allegation, AT&T agreed to make payments totaling $15 million to compensate 15,000 workers, mostly women, who were said to be victims of past promotion and salary discrimination...
...Supreme Court will presumably have to deal with these conflicts, for several pending cases will test the Government's use of preferential treatment in employment. The Communications Workers of America have petitioned the Supreme Court to review a costly agreement between the Federal Government and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. By setting ambitious goals for the promotion of women and minorities, the Government violated seniority rights as well as the 14th Amendment, the union charges. In another case, California building contractors have sued to overturn a requirement of the Public Works Employment Act of 1977 that 10% of the federal...
...impatient had I been to get the story out from the famine area that I had filed it raw from Honan, from the first telegraph station en route home-Loyang. By regulation, it should have been sent back via Chungking to be censored and almost certainly stopped. This telegram, however, was flashed from Loyang to New York via the commercial radio system in Chengtu, direct and uncensored. Thus, when the story broke, it broke in TIME magazine-the magazine most committed to the Chinese cause in all America. Madame Chiang K'ai-shek was then...
...accused by others of having plotted with Communists in the telegraph administration to slip my story out It took five days to get through to Chiang K'ai-shek and then only with the help of the sainted widow of Dr. Sun Yat-sen one of Madame Chiang K'ai-shek's older sisters. It was she who insisted the dictator receive me and then, to stiffen me the dainty lady wrote, "... report conditions as frankly and fearlessly as you did to me. If heads must come off, don't be squeamish about...
Heads I know, did roll, starting, I assume, with those at the hapless telegraph office of Loyang, which had let slip to America the embarrassment of death in Honan. But lives were saved -and saved by the power of the American press...