Califano urges flexible yardsticks for college admissions
In San Francisco, Allan Bakke case backdrop, Joe Califano calls for broader measures beyond SATs to widen minority access. He urges nonrigid goals, not quotas, and highlights federal efforts to boost basic skills testing and consolidate 13 HEW programs spending 2.2 billion yearly.
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Fifteen assessor candidates named by Los Angeles supervisors
Los Angeles County supervisors led by Edelman and Ward nominated candidates for county assessor. By Monday noon four supervisors submitted names totaling 18, but interviews will cover 15 distinct nominees. Inter views could begin next week with an appointment possible by year’s end for the $49,500 a year post.
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Boar
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James Hayes
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Filelman
Hahn Nomi
Edehnan
TV Am
Emani Bernardi
Philip
Admissions vote pits Riles against NAACP in UC debate
Sacramento and San Diego report clash over University of California admissions standards. California's first Black school superintendent Wilson Riles defends a 13 to 11 regents vote lifting weight on SAT scores, drawing NAACP criticism as minority groups warn of reduced minority enrollment. Riles argues tougher standards challenge public schools and prepare disadvantaged students. Separate item notes Ku Klux Klan plans unarmed border patrols near San Diego, with leaders claiming surveillance of illegal crossings and officials voicing opposition.
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Apy Wilson Riles
California
NAACP
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Riles
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Tex
David Duke
Metark
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
United States
Tom Metzger
Metzger
U.S. Customs Service
San Ysidro
Willan Kolender
Klan
Castillo
Wilson
U.S
Unemployment gaps persist for blacks and minorities in Southland
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 1976 area unemployment at 6.8 percent with 38.2 percent of the working age population employed. Blacks and other minority workers saw a drop in employment population ratio from 56.5 percent in 1975 to 63.2 percent in 1976, while white workers rose to 50.2 percent. Teenagers face high unemployment with hijack teens at 44.1 percent versus 20.1 percent for whites. Adult minority men earn 12 percent unemployment against 7 percent for white men. adult minority women face 10.0 percent unemployment versus 7.0 percent for white women.
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Pacific
Bruce Janchett
Reional
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Los Angeles-Long Beach
State holds spending near revenues level
SACRAMENTO API The state collected $2.9 billion in cash during the first three months of the fiscal year and spent just $1 million more than collected, state Controller Ken Cory said Monday. Revenue receipts were almost exactly as estimated while expenditures were 3.2 percent below estimates due to timing of expenditures.
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Ken Cory
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