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UNTESTING, TESTING. In 1986, as a result of a lawsuit filed mostly by black parents, California banned the use of I.Q. tests to measure learning disabilities in black students on the grounds that they tended to be racially discriminatory. The upshot would have seemed quirky even in South Africa: the tests were permitted for all kids except blacks. One mother of a mixed-race son was told that he could not be tested because he was registered as a black; she was advised to reregister him as Hispanic. Now a suit to restore the tests has been filed by another...
...break. Delegates also complained that they had heard nothing from Gorbachev about a five-hour meeting he had held a few days earlier with Russian republic leader Boris Yeltsin, although Yeltsin had told his own parliament that they had agreed in principle to form a new "coalition" government. The upshot: the parliamentarians refused even to debate any bills until Gorbachev gave a State of the Soviet Union report on the economic crisis and just what he and Yeltsin were...
Civil rights groups have also been planning a political assault. The upshot of last term's rulings, says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs, was that everyone "exists as a separate, individual, raceless, genderless person who is allowed to succeed or fail in terms designed for middle-class white men." Several U.S. Senators are drafting legislation to try to overturn some of those discrimination rulings...
...terrific technological leap -- a way to make crisp, distortion-free copies of compact discs and digital broadcasts. But recording-industry artists and executives heard an entirely different tune. To them, DAT would dampen compact disc sales, because one CD could be used to make countless perfect copies. The upshot of the argument was that DAT recorders, sold in Japan and Europe for about two years, have been virtually unavailable in the U.S. Now the two sides have at last found a way to end their dispute. Result: before long Americans will be able to enjoy the superior sounds...
...upshot: many critics fear that, for all Carlucci's vows, the necessary cutbacks will once more be accomplished largely by the tried-and-untrue methods of stretch-out and reductions in readiness. Says Lawrence Korb, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense: "Already the Air Force and Navy are flying less and steaming fewer training hours than necessary, and already there are cutbacks in necessary operations and maintenance...