Word: weal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banquet tables and in chancelleries the world over, China is making a prodigious effort to reassure its concerned friends. The weekly Peking Review has told the North Vietnamese that China is "your reliable rear area," crooned to Albania that "our hearts are closely linked," promised North Korea to "share weal and woe and fight to the end to defeat the common enemy." Last week at a Peking dinner for visiting Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, China's Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien made an all-purpose pledge to "stand by the Algerian and other Asian, African and Latin American...
...investigations were sparked by pressure from WEAL, a Washington-based group including several Congresswomen, to enforce a 1968 government order prohibiting sex discrimination. WEAL has filed charges with the HEW against 200 colleges and universities...
However, Roberta Benjamin, president of Boston Now-which joined the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) last November in charging that an earlier HEW report on Harvard's hiring practices was a "whitewash" of the University's treatment of women-said yesterday that "someone connected with Harvard" had told her that the University has thus far submitted two tentative plans dealing with women, both of which were rejected...
...began its investigation of Michigan last August, and "found no evidence of discrimination." After protests by WEAL, they reopened the probe, and this October, HEW presented Michigan with a set of demands for an "affirmative action plan" which included paying reparations to women...
...requirements for an affirmative action plan differ for each university, according to the nature of complaints filed by WEAL and the findings of HEW's subsequent investigation...