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...picks up the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, which used to trumpet the segregationist line but today champions racial harmony, and reads slowly out loud about George Bush's threatened veto of the new civil rights bill and about a school-board vote in Jackson along racial lines. "The battle of human rights and race relations is over," he says, "but while most people don't express overt racism, their actions manifest a prejudice. We've got to persevere...
...looked like a lopsided win for the Democrats last week when their civil rights bill passed in the House, 273-158. But looks can be deceiving: the yeas fell 17 votes shy of the 290 (two-thirds of the full House) needed to override President Bush's promised veto. Bush has repeatedly charged that the legislation would encourage racial hiring quotas, though the bill specifically declares job quotas illegal...
...military clinics, at their own expense, and cleared female pilots to fly combat missions at the discretion of their services. All these issues are likely to be decided differently when the Senate produces its bill, but Bush and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney have both warned of a presidential veto if the House version prevails...
With the Civil Rights Act of 1964 we really thought we were moving to finally get this issue of race behind us. Then we saw during the late '80s a resurfacing of racism. We saw more in the Supreme Court decisions of 1989, and the culmination was that veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1990. It seemed as if a little bit of bigotry was O.K. But if ever you tolerate a little bit, you have let the door come ajar. We saw that in the campaign of '88, with Willie Horton as an issue, and in the Jesse...
...their bill were enhanced by the House's passage last week of a defense-spending package that would allow U.S. servicewomen to obtain abortions in overseas military hospitals at their own expense. But even if Congress did pass the Wyden-Porter bill, it would face an almost certain Bush veto and another protracted political battle that would promise to carry into the 1992 elections...