Word: governments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Civil Service Commission, responding to a federal court decision, issued guidelines stating that people could not be denied federal employment solely because of homosexuality. The guidelines do not govern some "excepted" departments. Among these, the Foreign Service and the Agency for International Development of the State Department officially ended discrimination against homosexuals two years ago, but the FBI and CIA are still holding out. The Defense Department clings to a hard-line policy: "Known homosexuals are separated from the military service...
...Island, experts from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had to assess somberly the risks of every feasible step, weigh them against the dangers of waiting too long, and act only after satisfying themselves that they had a reasonably clear idea of what to do. The same spirit ought to govern the public and its leaders in the intense debate about the future of nuclear power that is now beginning...
...hour of change.' The Communist Party must govern!" That chant resounded through the high-domed chambers of Rome's Palazzo dello Sport last week as bespectacled Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer rose to address his party's 15th national congress. From a lectern bearing the hammer and sickle symbol, he issued a strident challenge: "The Communist Party has always stood on the very threshold of power. If the national and political crisis is to be solved once and for all, we must cross that threshold...
...Silber" buttons and many people insist B.U.'s problems will not be resolved until the university has a new president. The trustees, however, support Silber and faculty leaders are willing to put up with him if they have a good contract guaranteeing them wage increases and the right to govern their own affairs...
...Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud documents, not enough action has yet been taken: "The regulatory process that is supposed to govern the use of the herbicide can be described as almost stalled, having been impeded by disagreement among scientists, by the determination of the chemical manufacturing industry to continue production and sale of the herbicide, by bureaucratic backing and filling . . . and by the Government's own indecisiveness." Nor has there been much concern about the 1976 catastrophe that ruined the Italian town of Seveso, or about discovery of the poison in a chemical soup found in a landfill near...