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Five years ago, the Reagan Justice Department suddenly denounced the GATB practice, saying it was reverse discrimination and thus illegal under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Such practices do seem to contradict both the letter and the spirit of Title VII, the basic equal-employment law, which was designed to foster color blindness. Race norming also runs head-on into traditional American notions of advancement based on individual achievement...
...Business, on the other hand, greeted the ruling with disappointment and skepticism. Corporate officials feared that a number of companies may be exposed to large damage suits once they revise policies that the court has now found to be in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination. Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee-based manufacturer of automobile batteries, is just one of more than a dozen major companies -- among them, Gulf Oil, B.F. Goodrich, General Motors and Du Pont -- that now must reconsider fetal-protection guidelines...
...Scalia had already telegraphed his rejection of Johnson Controls' practices. Last October, when the case was argued before the court, Scalia, who has fathered nine children, took the company's lawyer to task for making "a farce of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act." That act, a 1978 amendment to Title VII, ensured that federal antibias protections cover pregnant workers. In another concurring opinion, Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Byron White upheld the majority decision but allowed that there may be instances where "sex-specific fetal protection policy" is justifiable...
...division's task was to accompany U.S. VII Corps armor in destroying the Republican Guard -- specifically, to form an advancing blockade from the west that bottled up the Iraqi forces. Schwarzkopf said the British units performed the job "absolutely magnificently." In addition to the gutsy, low-flying attacks on Iraqi airfields by British pilots early in the air war, Britain's partnership in the ground campaign proved the forces to have been what the U.S. commander called "absolutely superb members of this coalition from the outset...
...fire bedevils every war. Many World War II veterans recall running for foxholes whenever U.S. planes approached. In one of the worst cases on record, the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force bungled the bombing of enemy lines shortly after D-day in Normandy. Their explosives hit the Army's VII Corps, killing more than 100 soldiers and wounding 500. As in other such incidents, the G.I.s on the ground tried to defend themselves by firing back at their own planes...