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While guiding the Civil Right Act through the Senate, Sen. Hubert Humphrey explicitly assured senators that the bill "does not require an employer to achieve any kind of racial balance in his work force by giving preferential treatment to any individual or group." In a memo to the Senate, the floor managers of the bill assured their colleagues that "any deliberate attempt to maintain a racial balance, whatever such a balance may be, would involve a violation of Title VII [of the Act] because maintaining such a balance would require an employer to hire or to refuse to hire...
...Although Ms. Dale could not conclude whether[McCombe's actions] were racially motivated, [his]conduct could lend itself to that interpretationand thus expose the department to legal liabilityand the potential for extreme embarrassment in theHarvard community," the memo says...
...rest of the memo alleges McCombe failed toreport the incident--contrary to his training--andthat McCombe's conduct during the investigationwas "inappropriate" and threatened "to disrupt thestability of the Guard Service...
...source in the police department saidthat McCombe had reasonable grounds to suspectproblems with the investigation. McCombe would notcomment on the memo's allegations, but said hewould take them up by filing an officialgrievance. "I think those will be taken up in agrievance hearing," McCombe said...
...They left their post and tackled him. Theywere on Oxford [Street], which is definitely apublic street," the source said. The source saidthat the memo's criticisms don't make sense...