European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 9, 1991 the stars and stripes Carl Rowan affirmative action Means finding the Best despite All the demagoguery out of the White House about a unfair quotas and the juror Over the opposition to a affirmative action by Black nominee to the supreme court Clarence Thomas a whopping majority of americans still supports deliberate efforts to produce Equality of Job Opportunity. Furthermore Large numbers of powerful americans Are ignoring the ugly rhetoric and proceeding with their plans to produce fairness in their workplace for Blacks hispanics and women. These statements Are bolstered by the hiring and promotion records of Xerox corp., the Gannett co., Sara Lee the National football league commissioner a and a recent report by the Harris poll. The poll found that by 2 to 1, americans support affirmative action in employment believing it to mean a equal Job opportunities for minorities. And  but when the Issue is defined in such terms As a Job preference by race a a hiring minorities to meet quotas or a reverse discrimination a americans expressed opposition by Tore than 5 to 1. The current War Between the Congress and president Bush Over the pending civil rights Bill involves a contest by one Side to make the Public see it As laudable efforts to guarantee fairness and by the Bush Side to make the Bill out As a guarantor of a a quotas and a unfair  Many powerful people have Long ago made up their minds As to How they perceive affirmative action. I read an article in sundays Washington Post by Mike Freeman who detailed How National football league commissioner Paul Tagliabue has stood above the demagoguery and brought racial diversity and fairness to his staff. You fans May not have noticed but 62 percent of the nil players you were cheering last fall and Winter were Black. But the percentage of Blackston the leagues front office was terribly Low a about As bad As the percentage of Blacks in the front offices and coaching staffs of individual teams. Freeman a article pointed out that Tagliabue has used his own staff to set an example of constructive affirmative action. Strikes lockouts and other labor disputes and court cases Over a free Agency rights of payers have been great burdens on the nil. They threaten to be so for the rest of this Century and beyond. As pro Christopher Connell distributed by King features  mme it a Section for the future Tagliabue hired a prominent Black lawyer Harold Henderson As executive vice president in charge of labor relations a Job that will become critical to both management and players. All of us a a real football fans have noticed that in crucial games there might be a Black head Linesman or an occasional Black Umpire but that Black referees were had to find. Tagliabue has named Veteran Black head Linesman Leo Miles As a supervisor of  the abuse of steroids cocaine alcohol and other drugs has been a special curse of pro football. Taglia Bue has chosen As one off Fiat two it sop a dhea ton i hic Issue a Brack Man Lawrence amp. Browm. Tree icum Dmitr sooner wants More a tiek tac scors and Tanner in pro football. A Lyon should pursue Eire fees pc Spfie Daggres Quot Nad Star sively no matter what race or liable. A a it a a competitive . Tier foe a people Don t just fall into your East you i tour axed end the  Tagliabue has. Given of perhaps Bike sanest magic tence to. Describe what a a a affirm alive Aca Kotb is. All at a you go out Andi find the Bear Quot a North ainu a Misoni Slimm be Ai Zoitl democrats Haven t Laid a Glove on Bush yet i Kennebunkport Maine president Bush is Back at walkers Point his Anchor to Windward with such cares As the Gates and Thomas nominations the a october surprised probe and the lingering recession largely left behind in Washington. Bush bade goodbye to the capital tuesday for a four week vacation idyll that will Mark his longest absence yet from the White House. After a tempestuous 12 months including Victory in the Gulf War he Calls this a vacation a a in be earned. And it will not be  Congress before embarking on its own August recess ensured there would be Little to disturb Bush a Tranquility this month at the ancestral Retreat with the picture postcard View of the Atlantic. But in the 15 months after labor Day there will be Battles aplenty As Bush and the democrats Grope for the High ground in the 1992 elections. Indeed the democratic leadership on monday added the a october surprised a rumours that the Reagan Bush Campaign made a Deal with Iran to delay the release of american hostages until after the 1980 election a to the list of unfinished business. Bush who exhibits Little patience for congressional sifting through the Loose ends of the Iran Contra scandal from five years ago said this new investigation is Fine with him if it is based on a hard evidence and not just based on outrageously Flimsy  but the democrats can hardly build much Hope of recapturing the White House on pummelling Bush on foreign affairs. The question of a whether the republicans pulled a fast one in 1980�?� wont decide the 1992 election sniffed Stephen Hess the Brookings institution political analyst. A a that a something for historians not Tor  the democrats even As they wait for reluctant candidates to throw their hats in the ring know their Only real Hope is to Cudgel Bush on Domestic matters including a recession he prophesied would be a Short and  almost 2 million americans have lost their jobs since the downturn began in july 1990. A Wall Street journal Abc news Survey last week indicated 74 percent of voters approved of Bush a handling of foreign policy but Only 38 percent endorsed his stewardship of the Economy. S nevertheless it took the Democrat controlled Congress until last week to pass the first piece of legislation intended to ameliorate the plight of the unemployed. Both houses by overwhelming margins enacted a nearly $6 billion Relief package to provide up to 20 extra weeks of benefits for the unemployed. In the House the tally was greater than 8-to-1. A veto proof margin at last nope. The democrats have contrived a was to allow Bush to kill this measure without resorting to a veto. The democrats still have to live within the pay As you go fiscal constraints of the budget Deal they struck with Bush last fall. When rep. Thomas Downey d-n.y., sought to extend the unemployment benefits last Winter he wanted to make employers foot the Bill by raising the amount of wages subject to the unemployment tax. I his colleagues wary of being skewered with the tax and spend Label deep fixed that plan and settled for a two step Compromise fashioned by sen. Lloyd Bent Send Texas. It extends the unemployment benefits a but Only if Bush declares a budget emergency to allow the Treasury to borrow the Money. The White House passed the word that Bush would let the measure become Law but never declare the emergency. Republicans sensing a no lose situation lined up in droves to support the watered Down measure. The democrats who complain that Bush cares More about the sufferings of the kurd than dire Domestic difficulties Promise to revisit the Issue in the fall if Bush forestall the emergency jobless benefits. But  have their hands full then with other measures the president has threatened with outright vetoes including the bitterly contested Job discrimination Bill and a Highway Bill with a Mekel a Gailett gasoline tue increase. Bus h Hopes smote he Tim am Euan Cix amp in rebound will hose1 sapped she Hwan Akers appetite foe move . Toese Daft. Bush who Ofney Ben nouns she paucity of resume Narf m Coap Nett h Mimz Tike democratic my of Lbw rafts Whit bit libera vet threats. He to skiis  Iju Elwath none of his. 2e vetoes. Hio nag bees overridden. He has. Made As dotes or a Cue Velo threats Chut year a oat abortion Blus. Crime civil rights decease and Cutbert a but the trickle of  Cut a of the 102nd Congress Bat been unripe Pfaar he has not actual Fly cast at sir Gale veto m 19911. His staff saw the of amp a Weto certain to come a Tau of  to on a District of lol Maca pm Sinbrg hib to Cate restrictions Ooi it Acari afro Vikra spending. The Congress. A its Wisdom. Bush the . Of Faavi ext headed tag to veto extended a twp amp try Mcnol torn fits. So Bush Caas Eains Kejs Etc import idyll secure w the Ibao wedge of car whatever the Democrat have is share for him in the �?T92 aunt Sheffit they Haven t Laid a Glove on him yen a in a to Muu Mutuc the Pinwu est Tsufu u 1be Cul Uram and cartoons am hot a Ope represent those of the Ralhan of Are m my Way to he considered an representing tie views of the scars and script or tie United states Gavm