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City Manager Corcoran took no steps to implement the Liacos recommendations...
...with the press, Colby's revelations were more than a week old; the President had been briefed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and doubtless was ready to field reporters' questions. Said Ford: "Our Government, like other governments, does take certain actions in the intelligence field to help implement foreign policy and protect national security. I am informed reliably that Communist nations spend vastly more money than we do for the same kind of purposes...
...State Civil Service Commission and the State Civil Service Division. The police officers said they are being denied promotions "due to the racial practices and policies of the defendants." They seek a court order to have all eligible black patrolmen promoted to sergeant and to force the city to implement an "affirmative action" plan for police recruitment and promotion. A special three-judge panel led by Frank M. Coffin, chief of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, will hear the case before September...
...this is hard to pin down. Affirmative action is especially difficult to implement in the Faculty, because the rules are so vague and easy to subvert. Delda White says departments choose male professors on the basis of promise, while selecting women and minorities on the basis of prior achievement. She cites as an example the English Department, which chose three men last year for three assistant professorship openings. Keller acknowledges that although "in any specific proposal I can't nail any evidence of discrimination," the case of the English Department "certainly leaves an impression...
...American proposals that overpopulated countries make a systematic effort to reduce the size of families to an average of two children, and implement birth control policies by the specific target date of 1985 were resoundingly rejected by the delegates...