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Sixty two percent of Americans thinkaffirmative action programsfor minorities and women sometimes discriminate against white men, according to the latest TIME-CNN poll. Sixty three percent of those polled (a base sample of 800 adults) oppose affirmative action programs that include quotas.TIME senior writer Richard Lacayosays the results show "a real tilt against affirmative action...
...Internet can be a valuable source of intelligence. "Open-ness has come," says Robert Steele, a former intelligence officer who heads Open Source Solutions Inc. in Oakton, Virginia. He estimates that "40% of the total intelligence product that goes to the President comes from public sources," such as cnn, unclassified foreign- government documents and business reports. The Russian government, which once classified crop yields and factory output as state secrets, now routinely publishes those figures on the Internet to entice Western investors. Resistance groups in countries like Iran put information on international computer networks that agency case officers once...
...force the grounding of airplanes with faulty bolts in their engines. FAA officials said the directive could take up to 8,000 general aviation airplanes (roughly 10% of the U.S. total) out of service, ranging from small Cessnas to some twin-engine planes, until the bolts are replaced. CNN reported that the FAA also grounded all Arrow Air flights for an indefinite period of time because the Miami-based airline was not keeping adequate records...
...electorate seems receptive to new choices. TIME-CNN polls have shown a consistent majority of voters-56% vs. 34% in last week's survey-favoring creation of a full-fledged new party. The level of support remains high, though regard for Perot has ebbed. Waning loyalty to the major parties, rather than enthusiasm for any one independent leader, whets the appetite for alternatives. "You're going to see a centrist, third-party challenge in '96, without question," says Lowell Weicker, a former Republican Senator who won Connecticut's governorship as an independent. Others speculate about a fourth party as well...
...past two years, Buchanan has juggled a weekday radio show, a syndicated column and cnn's Crossfire. To run for President again, he has relinquished all that media access. "Go, Pat, go!" shouted his radio-show callers during his last week on the air. The host, lanky and buzzing with nervous energy, served up more rhetorical whacks at "the billionaire bankers." Wealthy financiers will figure prominently in his 1996 demonology...