UNC Board Rejects HEW Desegregation Pace Plan
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors rejects HEW’s 150 percent Black enrollment increase by 1982, substituting a 32 percent target. The clash raises fears over federal control, court orders, and the impact on Black and white students seeking higher education in the UNC system.
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University of North Carolina
Board of Governors
UNC
Dept. of Health Education and Welfare
Jim Hunt
William Friday
North Carolina
HEW
NAACP
John Pratt
UNC Board of Governors
Julius Chambers
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Chambers
Unc-Chapel Hill
N.C. A&t
Winston-Salem State
Carolina
N.C. State
Rural America Revisited in Lake Placid Olympics Debate
The Adirondack region braces for Olympic growth in 1980 as Lake Placid weighs tourism gains against landscape and community costs. Officials worry over infrastructure, housing VIPs, and local job rules, noting 80 percent of Olympic construction jobs must go to local workers.
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Lake Placid
N.Y
Adirondack
Rockies
McDonald's
Sweden
Abc-Tv
ABC
Colorado
Denver
Austria
Adirondack Mountains
Federal Economic Development Administration
Inside Track for Endangered Species Battles
Washington report says Interior Dept official Robert Herbst bends to Safari Clubs International, allowing a hunter to attend an international endangered species conference and seek a vote for hunters. The piece also notes Zablocki's self appointment to an intelligence committee and updates from Indochina on North Vietnamese access to U.S. jet technology and Lao requests for aid.
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Robert Herbst
U.S
Ku Klux Klan
Herbst
Safari Clubs International
Fairness doctrine fuels free TV ads on oil issue
A Washington area controversy centers on WTOP broadcasting unpaid Energy Action Committee ads challenging oil industry power while the FCC cites the fairness doctrine. Four counter spots urge horizontal divestiture, raising questions about who censors ideas and what counts as public interest.
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Senate
Congressional Quarterly
Texaco
Energy Action Committee
FCC
WTOP
Richards wins suit against tennis bodies over Open ban
The court ruling allows Dr. Renee Richards to compete in the U S Tennis Open at Forest Hills after a ruling against the sex chromosome test. The piece notes opponents feared a flood of transsexual competitors and includes a satirical dialogue about changing gender and attire.
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Renee Richards
U.S. Tennis Assn
Women’s Tennis Assn
Forest Hills
Dr. Richards
Blue Shield
Ethel Kennedy
Chrissie Evert
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Washington
Interior Dept
United States
Minnesota
Tion
Clement Zablocki
D.wis
House’ International Relations Committee
Thomas ‘‘Tip’' O'Neill
House
Committee On
Zablocki
O'Neill
Milwaukee
North Atlantic Assembly
His
The
Indochina
Saigon
South Vietnam
Laos
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Feds
Energy Action Committee, Inc
Post-Newsweek People
Federal Communications Commission
Texaco, Inc
Congress
Commission
James J. Kilpatrick
Buchwald
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