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...nothing short of criminal," said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "It opens the door to every racist element in the nation to discriminate and to do it with a subsidy from the Government." For civil rights leaders, the decision was the culmination of an ominous series of Administration actions. Reagan has urged Congress to amend some of the key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which helped enfranchise millions of blacks and elect thousands of black officials. The Justice Department has said that it would like to find a way to overturn a Supreme Court decision allowing...
...President warning Administration members of the consequences of discussing security information with reporters. According to a high White House aide, announcement of the guidelines had to be rushed because news of their existence was beginning to leak. The crux of the President's order: "All contacts with any element of the news media in which classified National Security Council matters or classified intelligence information are discussed will require the advance approval of a senior official. In the event of unauthorized disclosure of such information, Government employees who have had access to that information will be subject to investigation...
...virtue in his kind of sanguine temperament than college coaching staffs do. Whether shooting baskets in the intramural "Bookstore Classic," or pool at Corby's or Frisbees at beer cans in the hallway hockey games, Montana was a natural competitor, and the players knew it. His jokes, another element probably only they understood-icebreaking one-liners-were not automatically funny. They were only funny when he said them...
...disasters go, this one was terrible, but not unique, certainly not among the worst on the roster of U.S. air crashes. There was the unusual element of the bridge, of course, and the fact that the plane clipped it at a moment of high traffic, one routine thus intersecting another and disrupting both. Then, too, there was the location of the event. Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic, deregulated, by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like...
...would be more effective in dealing with Polish wrongs if we recognized other wrongs elsewhere," he told the Forum audience, adding, "Human rights are an element of U.S. foreign policy that will never be lacking...