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...Before the story, they were a booming company." But Towle also notes that ABC may have given too much credence to accounts by union sources of company conditions at a time when the firm was resisting unionization and was facing labor unrest. Towle says that there is an elegant turnabout in the Food Lion argument: "They are saying to ABC, 'You hold us to a retailing standard; we're going to hold you to a journalism standard.' Regardless of the outcome of the trial, this will have wide-ranging impact on investigative journalism...
...standard explanation that white-run companies employ when they are taken to task for having homogeneous work forces. "Hey," upper-level management types will say, "we looked for qualified folks. There just were no black candidates." It's the old "N.B.C." answer, and in the face of a historic turnabout, the National Broadcasting Co. happens to be using said answer to defend its just-announced fall season. NBC, the network that broadcast the pioneering Cosby Show in the '80s, the network that carried the Nat King Cole Show in the 1950s when virtually no advertisers were willing to sponsor...
Peres, as the incumbent, was able to back his turnabout with deeds. In the wake of the last round of suicide bombings in late February and early March, he ordered what has turned out to be the longest ban ever on Palestinian workers crossing into Israel. In response to Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel by Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon, Peres last month launched a massive 17-day bombardment of Lebanon. But the killing of more than 100 innocent civilians at Qana (see box) has alienated Israel's Arab minority, who make up some 15% of the population and whose...
Just last week Forbes told WMVU radio in New Hampshire that he advocates a federal version of California's Proposition 187, a measure championed by Governor Pete Wilson forbidding illegal immigrants to receive government benefits. This is a turnabout from his views in 1993, when in his Forbes magazine column he equated Wilson's scapegoating of illegal immigrants with the interning of Japanese Americans during World War II and castigated Wilson's stance as "morally wrong...
...Constitution, your letter writer is correct in his belief that when it was being considered, Jefferson was wary of the idea of a strong central government. Initially, he was critical of the proposed Constitution because it contained no guarantees of civil rights. No doubt Jefferson's criticism influenced the turnabout on this issue of fellow Virginian James Madison, who was a principal drafter of the Constitution and who later proposed the Bill of Rights. ROGER W. SEILER South Nyack, New York...