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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1996
Page
2
Texaco agreed to pay 176.1 million dollars to settle a race discrimination suit filed in 1994. Plaintiffs will receive 115 million in cash to about 1,500 black current and former workers, plus 26.1 million in pay raises and 35 million for diversity programs.
The Queen Mother, aged 96, reassured concerns about her health by attending a Black Watch regimental association event Thursday night. She serves as colonel-in-chief of the regiment.
President Clinton weighs a top post candidate while Al Gore expands influence in a second term. Gore will gain wider latitude in naming aides and party roles as the administration forms, shaping his future presidential bid.
In Hebron, Jewish settlers protested outside Benjamin Netanyahu's office amid word of a possible troop pullback. They moved saplings before the five enclaves as tensions rose and a blast from an acid projectile shocked troops. Protests also pressed Netanyahu over the stalled negotiations with the PLO's Yasser Arafat.
President Clinton said the United States will keep thousands of troops in Bosnia until June 1998 to foster peace and will send about 4000 U.S. forces to Zaire for a Canadian-led humanitarian mission in central Africa. Critics labeled the policy reactive, but most lawmakers were not sure to oppose.
Boston School Committee scraps racial quotas at three exam schools after pressure from a white girl’s reverse discrimination suit. A task force proposes a mixed admissions plan based on test scores and racial group percentages, potentially triggering new lawsuits from Asian students.
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