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...thousands of soldiers and policemen who had served the now defunct old regime, finding jobs for thousands of people who have for years lived primarily on money coming in from the U.S. Moreover the Communists, like numerous Saigon governments before them, will face at least some antagonism from a welter of independent political and religious groupings: the Buddhists, the Catholics, the anti-Communist politicians. "The Cao Dai and Hoa Hao in particular are quite hostile to the Communists," observes Harvard Asian Scholar Alexander Woodside. "The Hoa Hao view Marxism as a Western creed, and they view themselves as standing...
...idea behind affirmative action, although obscured by a confusing welter of guidelines and bureaucratese, is simple. It is a federally regulated, systematized reform of the way institutions hire people, requiring broad and open searches for job candidates. The hiring reform, which administrators call sound personnel management, is an end in itself, but it was designed with a specific goal in mind: increasing the disproportionately small number of women and minorities in American institutions, especially in high-paying jobs...
...Health Administration four years ago, it acted out of justifiable concern about the shockingly high rate of U.S. job-caused injuries and illnesses (some 2.4 million disabling industrial injuries were reported in 1972 alone; many others doubtless went unreported). OSHA was empowered to set national standards to replace a welter of conflicting health and safety guidelines, send inspectors to factories, stores and offices to check on compliance, levy stiff fines on violators and even order unsafe businesses to close down. In operation, however, OSHA has pleased almost no one. Labor leaders complain, correctly, that job-accident rates have not dropped...
Associate Editor Edwin Warner wrote the main body of the cover story, and Reporter-Researcher Sarah Bedell grappled with the welter of statistics and details. Warner, having written a succession of gloomy political stories, was pleased to be discussing the good fortunes of the black middle class. "It's nice to see that society can function despite all the things that have gone wrong," he says. Contributing Editor Ivan Webster was assigned an accompanying story about the black underclass - an experience far less heartening. "It's a grim but necessary part of the larger story," he notes...
...suppose some confusion was inevitable in the welter of editorial comment following the press's release of the Watergate transcripts, but I would like to set the record straight so far as the Los Angeles Times is concerned...