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Reagan soft on civil rights
WASHINGTON (AP) - Inter
nal records of the Equal Em
ployment Opportunity Commis
sion and a lawyers' study of
Justice Department operations
contradict Pres Ronald
Reagan's claim that his admin
istration has enforced civil
rights laws more actively than its
predecessors
An EEOC document obtained
by The Associated Press
showed that, contrary to
Reagan's recent claim to a
black audience, the number of
job discrimination suits ap
proved by the commission has
dropped sharply
And the independent Wa
shington Council of Lawyers
concluded in a recent report
that "the administration has
retreated from well-established,
bipartisan civil rights policies''
in several areas. Enforcement of
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school desegregation and fair
housing laws has all but halted,
according to the 138-page
study.
Only in prosecuting police
brutality and similar violent
denials of individuals' civil rights
has the Justice Department ex
celled. the report said
A Reagan spokesman, Peter
Roussel, said there would be no
immediate comment from the
White House
Reagan told a dinner for black
Republicans on Sept. 15 that he
usually tries to ignore personal
attacks, "but one charge I will
have to admit strikes at my heart
every time I hear it That's the
suggestion that we Republicans
are taking a less active ap
proach to protecting the civil
rights of all Americans. "
"No matter how you slice it,
that's just plain baloney."
"Look at the record," Reagan
suggested "The level of activity
of this administration in inves
tigating and prosecuting those
who would attempt to deny
blacks their civil liberties by
violence and intimidation has
exceeded the level of every past
administration.
The lawyers council, which
bills itself as a bipartisan as
sociation of attorneys from
private firms, government and
public interest groups, said in its
study published the same day
Reagan made his speech, that
the administration s record in
that area is at least equal to
those of the two previous ad
ministrations
But Reagan went on to say,
"The Justice Department has
filed nine new
anti-discrimination cases
against public employers and
has reviewed more than 9,000
electoral changes to determine
compliance with the Voting
Rights Act And that, too, is a
higher level of activity than in
any prior administration.”
The council study found
these statistics, used earlier by
a Justice Department official,
"highly misleading, though
technically accurate Upon
closer examination, a different
picture emerges."
The 9,000 reviews Reagan
mentioned are those required
each time a state or local
government covered by the
Voting Rights Act makes a
change in its election law. Such
automatic reviews have been
particularly numerous in the
wake of the 1980 census that
forced widespread redistricting
Furthermore, the council
said, the administration filed
only two new cases in the voting
rights field during its first 20
months, compared to nearly a
dozen during the first 12 months
of the Carter administration
Brazil s president blames west
for worldwide economic crisis
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -
The president of Brazil on Mon
day opened this year's policy
debate in the U N General As
sembly blaming Western
powers for "a profound crisis in
the international economic sys
tem ’’
President Joao Baptista de
Oliveira Figueiredo, in a
35-minute address opening the
157-nation assembly's debate,
urged the developed nations to
take immediate steps to reduce
crippling high interest rates and
to deal with other economic
problems
The policy debate is to go on
for the next three weeks
It was the first time a Brazilian
head of state had delivered
Brazil's policy position Figueir
edo said it was "the seriousness
of the international situation"
that had brought him to the
United Nations
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