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On the question of what perspective came closest to defend their own views, 46% of respondents said Augusta National has the right to have an entire team for membership, while the same percentage said one judge such a prestigious club tournament should female members.

Sixty-five percent in the survey of AP ICR / International Communications Research of Media, Pennsylvania, said Woods is expected to play the tournament, and in April, while 15 percent, he said no. Woods, already the Masters three times, including in the last two years, plans to play, but he said he supports the admission of a female member at the club.

A New York Times editorial on the proposed text Woods on November 18 should not play.

The issue of accession Club, the various reactions of men and women.

Women were slightly more likely than men to say, it should be women members of the club. Young adults were more of the opinion that the manner in which the atmosphere has declined and continues in older age groups.

Those who follow professional golf, almost a quarter of the population, 23 percent, has been more inclined to defend the right of Augusta National, all men of membership. The survey of 1,004 people was November 22-26, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The controversy does not seem to hurt the image of the Masters. Only one in five said the club, all men and members of the tournament, less favorable, and three quarters, it has no influence on their way of the event.

Among them was Jill Jones, 27, a director of Pomona, NY “Women can create their own club, and so, men”, she said.

The association does not regarding the accession of the politics of exclusion, even if it is not in possession of a black member until 1990, and it has not female member in its 70-year history. Chairman Hootie Johnson said the club one day allow a female member, but that the timetable that we, and not at the point of a bayonet.”

The National Council of Women’s Organizations, more than 6 million members in 160 groups, in a letter on 12 June Johnson, after President Martha Burk read reports about Augusta National, by virtue of a woman among the 300 members.

The club has a poll published last month, it has already said that it is very broad public support for Augusta National’s position on the issue.

Many, however, are sceptical about the attitude of the club.

Billy Peacock, age 76, a retired Whitney, Texas, he said that he did not understand why the Golf Club has no female members. “Women have as much right to this club than men,”he said.

Augusta National has many current retirees or the leaders of some of the largest companies in the country, its members, and businesses, as a general rule, measures to combat discrimination based on sex.

Just over half in the survey, 52 percent said they think that everything is in order, that the leaders of belonging to a male-only club, while only a little less than a third , 35%, it is not.

“I think it’s a kind of shame, they have no women in the club, but that is their choice, everyone in the club they want,’’said Kevin Bernier, 36 years old, a man Business passionate about golf and Verona Iceland, Maine.

Bernier and his wife Sue, 36, the debate on the issue of membership of all boy.

The group urges the female members at Augusta National has its battle into cyberspace Tuesday with a website, schmäht capital companies, which include the Director General of the golf club.

”We believe it is important for women to know that some of the largest companies in America get double standard when it comes to sex discrimination,’’said Martha Burk, head of National Council of Women’s Organizations.

The website - www.augustadiscriminates.org - was officially launched online Tuesday night in the delivery of Burk’s HBO’s”Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”

At first, issued on Hall of Hypocrisy”,” appears logos of the company with links to Augusta.

Each company link shows a photograph of the president or manager of the company instructed to diversity, if it wishes, and the products and services offered. A header announced that the company supports discrimination.

”The company is headed by a man who shows his contempt for women every day, it has always regarded as a member of the Augusta National Golf Club,’’says each entry.

Augusta National spokesman Glenn Greenspan said, the site is easy nicht”Nachrichten”because it is the work of a group of Washington.

It’s”101 political activism,”he said.

Some of the companies on the Web site, including the Bank of America, General Electric and United States Steel Corp., rejected the criticisms made of them.

“Bank of America” is not compatible with the Augusta National Golf Club. (It) is a recognized leader in the field of Corporate Workforce diversity and social equality in general and to the advancement of women in the workforce and, above all, “the bank, the Atlanta Journal - Constitution, in a statement, the spokesman Scott Scredon.

At least one company Burk asked to remove its logo on the website. Franklin Templeton Investments said a spokesman for the AJC is it in a letter, he asks.

Burk, she said, the spotlight at the question, but it is, according to the points of the page.

It is not only the website of the controversy.

A North Carolina man two weeks ago www.golfersforarealcause.org started with two objectives - of the money for research on breast cancer, and the attention of Burk.

In addition, a man in Florida www.theburkstopshere.com constructed as a collection of Web sites to protest Burk and their efforts to Augusta National to admit a woman member.

Burk, he said, five people for several days at a wavelength of information on the different businesses, including the diversity of their positions and contact information.

”I hope that consumers know that these people, how they double standards, and I hope that to make informed choices”, she said.

The date”is not the result of chance. We are in the middle of the holiday season buying. The strength of the market is strong, and for consumers to make decisions.”

The controversy over men that membership of the house of the master, which has already club chairman Hootie Johnson’s Drop television sponsors from the next year’s tournament.

Former CBS Committee Thomas Wyman resigned as a member of the club, two weeks ago, when Treasury Secretary John Snow, the candidate has resigned from Augusta, it would not be a problem, while his confirmation hearings.

Otherwise, the debate is at a stalemate.

Johnson said in an interview last month that there was no chance Augusta National, a woman would be invited to participate before the Masters in April, and I saw that he had nothing wrong with a single organization of gender equality.

Demonstrations at the gates of Augusta Masters apparent in the course of fate, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of PUSH / Rainbow Coalition offered to the head.

Burk said the main objective of his group on the web page is put under pressure by the Presidents.

They should uncomfortable”,”, she said. ”They are not in the action of the defence of discrimination based on sex for a few boys at Augusta. You are in action from the sale of goods and services. I hope that its board of directors a look at what people are doing in their own image.

”It is quite Corporate scandals in the financial sector,’’said Burk. You do not need de’’scandale social, and that is exactly what it is.”

Burk was also supported by Jane Smith, chief executive of Business and Professional Women / USA.

”… Presidents, who belong to Augusta National Golf Club can also be lax in the business support policy to pay women and the promotion of women equitably shared equally with men,’’said Smith, a member NCWO.

Viacom, the parent company of CBS, was also on the main page. Burk requests CBS subscription is discrimination to approval by the dissemination of Masters.

The second objective is to Web PGA Tour.

Burk, “said Tour, which is not a policy of discrimination against, golf courses, is a double fault by the official recognition of the Masters Tournament. It provides, for its official sponsors on their list and present the tour’s Board of Directors.

Ission for a group to protest April 12 in the third phase, but do not define who they accuse.

“It was a very reasonable request,”Burk said.” We only asked for 12 people around the door and asked us for 200 on the road, as a protest, is not very many people. I do not think we need a huge crowd, from our point of view.”

Twenty-four people, at the door of protest to Magnolia Lane and 200 others along the route from Washington Magistrale Masters visitors across the street from the club.

Sheriff Ronald force said that the demonstrations on the road could undermine security.

Burk, head of National Council of Women’s Organizations, has received a sense of what impact a dozen protesters, as in the hotel.

A group of men, which is named “duffragettes,”representatives of the DC chapter of the National Coalition of Free Men, shows signs.

“She received the” right duh ‘part,’’said Burk, who has a picture of the men before.

Burk said she also receives calls from unknown men on their mobile phones in the middle of the night, who say their dissatisfaction about her.

“A man called me at 4 am,’’said Burk.” He said, “Tell Madam, why not come here and washing my kitchen?”

Burk reiterates his long assimilation sex discrimination to racial discrimination. She said she was aware of Augusta chairman, Hootie Johnson’s record on civil rights, but they have not said that excuses him locking women join their club.

“He tried to buy a passport, sex discrimination of the past, with a good work on civil rights,”Burk said.

A former treasurer of Texaco Inc. yesterday, which charges him command of the crushing of documents vitally important to an employee’s complaint of racial discrimination, that the oil company for $ 176 million.

The treasurer at retirement, Robert Ulrich, formerly the executive department of finance at the beginning, we tried, with sabotage of the minority of cases, workers put in conspiracy with a sub-tear and lay the documents produced by the law firm employees. He was also accused, in particular, documents relating to the concealment of Texaco’s legal department.

The indictment under the same name of Mr. Ulrich, Richard A. Lund ceasefire, which were previously treated with obstruction of justice in a criminal complaint. The indictment replaces fire criminal proceedings against Mr. Lund, and adds a conspiracy count.

Costs were selected by a Federal Grand Jury in White Plains. In the case of a conviction of anyone suffering from a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for obstruction of justice count and 5 years on the conspiracy count. Mr. Lund-fire, a coordinator for employee retirement Texaco, pleaded not guilty to obstruction of the tax in March.

Lawyers representing Mr. Mr. Ulrich and Lund-fire were not available for comment. Texaco was not charged, and declined to comment.

The minority of workers in the event of November, after the disclosure of secret tape recordings that Mr. Lund-fire, the complainant had a national outcry and threats of boycott a guide for citizens’ rights. The shots were in 1994 by the meetings during which Texaco finance and human resources staff was heard decry minority, personnel and the destruction of documents.

The indictment alleges that from 1994 1996, Mr. Mr. Ulrich and Lund Wall lied Texaco’s legal department, she had asked for employees with the documents during pretrial gathering evidence.

When Gregory and Shannon Broome, two young lawyers, found the apartment of their dreams a few years ago in the elegant Beekman Place neighbourhood East Side of Manhattan, were they in loans

But if Mr. Broome, was awarded to the building of red brick Neo-Georgian cooperative building at 425 East 51st Street, in a meeting with the president of the Co-op, everything changes. He and his wife finally told she could not in the apartment.

Mr. Broome, who is black, and his wife, who know they believed were victims of racial discrimination is intended to provide. And later, the court certificate showed that a co-op member kritzelte’’schwarzen Mann”auf had a notebook in the discussions relating to the implementation of the couple.

Last week, a jury of the federal law in Manhattan, it was agreed that the victims of discrimination, the award of $ 640000 damages - including $ 410000 for punitive damages, as well as against the Beekman Hill House and the members of its board of directors.

The ruling, which legal experts said, the largest ever in a racial discrimination case against a Manhattan cooperative and the supervisory board, was remarkable because it was one of the rare instances of this kind of success in a co-op, and he presented bald, what some Critique of the Co-op Boards say is a common practice.

Within eight days of the trial version, Lawrence Wiener, the board had a kritzelte’’schwarzen Mann”auf Pad, also testified that””, even better when he learned that Shannon Broome was white.

Another committee member, Michael Silverman, testified that after the hearing, that the Co-op president, Nicholas Biondi, had expressed reservations about the Broomes, he warned Mr. Biondi,”If you have a sense of unease, because Mr. Broome is black, Since we can refer it not this kind of thing.”

Mr. Biondi, M. Wiener, and other committee members disputed that race was a determining factor in his decision to reject the Broomes. Testimony revealed that Mr. Biondi has interpreted, a welcoming against Mr. Broome to the building, because he has found, and perhaps aggressiv””und””arrogant controversial. But Judge Robert L. Carter, seen in one place without the jury, that the Board of Trustees of the characterization of Mr. Broome arrogant””zumindest as proposed that Broomes had a case where they are discriminated against because ” ‘Arrogant,”he said, was ein”Code behalf of racial discrimination.”

”In the past, when the term was a little ungehobelter said on dreist,”the judge. ”But now it is somewhat civilized, and it is arrogant. It is the word to be used.”

A lawyer for the Co-op told later, the jury, that jemand”kann arrogant.”He continued:”black or white, it is very arrogant. This is not an inherited race.”

Critics of the Co-op Boards have long expected that the decisions to accept or reject tenants are often arbitrary and stayed on the basis of such factors as race. Although the illegal refusal of the race, it is difficult to prove that such decisions occur because Co-op tables have great powers under the law and refuse to tenants do not have to explain why they are somebody one.

Michael H. Schill, director of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University School of Law, said that the size der”Urteil showed that the jury obviously must feel that that the Co-op Board, was fantastic and wanted to send a message and punish the perpetrators.”

Mr. Biondi refused to comment on the results. Patricia Murphy, a lawyer for Mr. Biondi and other committee members, who also refused to comment, but said that the ruling would probably be appealed.

Testimony showed that the Beekman Hill House had never seen a black tenant, which is characterized by the Board approve. But in the process of evidence that black Haitian family, and has an apartment he rents. The family, through support for an effective process. In the 11 years since the building was a co-op, there were more than 55 nominations for sublease, according to witnesses, justice, none came from black.

By Cheryl J. Hopwood ‘point of view, past, if necessary, as an asset for a candidate at the University of Texas Law School, she was the most qualified.

Mrs. Brandon father died when she was a girl, and it was erected in difficult circumstances of his mother. She worked all through high school and go on by the Community College and California State University at Sacramento, where they met with a degree of Notes 3.8 average. Then, after a resident of Texas, they are good enough for the right to school, cinema admissions test, in a legal category of the school applicant, the almost automatically admitted to Texas.

But Cheryl Hopwood was not admitted, and she believes the reason is that she knows. What she has in the midst of an appeal against the University of Texas that, if it wins, there could be much more difficult for higher education institutions in Germany for “affirmative action” policy was held for two decades. A decision on the merits is scheduled in the coming days, weeks.

“The Texas approach to the” affirmative action “in the” mainstream “of the process of law schools and other schools throughout the country,” said Harry Reasoner, a lawyer for the university. “That would be compromised if These officially sentenced by the court and did not propose any alternatives. “Race Factor

The costume was presented by Mrs. Brandon and three other claimants is widespread in relation to a case of the emblem for 16 years, v. Bakke Regents of the University of California. The United States Supreme Court in a 5-to-4 decision requires S. Allan Bakke access to medical school, the school decided that his rights were violated when she was dismissed on the ground, he knows.

The Court approved in the “affirmative action” Bakke case that race and ethnicity at the University of cinema attendance is permitted, but only when used in a flexible manner, and for the purposes of ‘Elimination of the impact of racial injustice of the past. Race, in other words, can be a decisive factor in the selection of the candidate, but not the only factor, the Court of Justice said.

Mrs. Brandon argued that the establishment of goals for cinema attendance of black and Mexican-American applicants, the university went far beyond what the Supreme Court has allowed, Bakke, race and ethnic, like all the main criteria for admission Thus against the applicant ‘rights to equal treatment.

“Race should not be a determining factor when admitting the policy in terms of law school,” she said recently in a telephone interview from his home in San Antonio. “At this level, I am competing with others who have BA degrees, and they are not necessarily people who are more disadvantaged backgrounds, as myself. ” Different criteria

The event, discussed in the last month before Judge Sparks Saturday in Federal District Court in Austin, offered a little view of the opening of authorization procedures by a large Law School, a trial as a general rule, shrouded in secrecy. Used by the claimants as a hostile witness, University officials, that the institution to lift nearly 15% of the right of school seats for blacks and Mexican-Americans who are admitted, according to different criteria for all other students, other minorities, including students. Law school deans from Stanford University, as well as in the universities of Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina, and testified that the preferences for other candidates in the minority.

If Cornelius Cooper, a lineman for Georgia Power Company, concluded that discrimination complaint against her employer last summer, he did no more to failure and to promote training offered.

Instead, Mr. Cooper, who is black, complained that Georgia Power view of the increase in counter. During 1992, for example, when it is overhead lines underground, he was denied a promotion because he does not have enough experience in working with airlines, “he said before the court papers. Even if he disagrees, he spent almost a year of transformation for our mission, he said, to hear that he has not enough experience with the U-Bahn.

Employees have more trouble grumbled long overlooked for promotions, of course, but also to provide their bosses they suspect of sour grapes. And it is true that deciding who we want, and which does not move, the leaders of the job is an inexact science, at best.

Similarly, yes, an increase in the number of blacks and other minorities, saying that they are disrupting a model for detecting rejection of their employers, what their lawyers are aimed at preserving post”.” Typically, they say, they are not that much coveted They can advance to work at a specific job, such as obtaining a bachelor or end of learning, how the new software. Then, when they are meeting this objective, the employer puts a new application for sailing and promote further out of reach.

I clicked on”dozens of cases of discrimination by race, and the concept of the door in motion, is a recurring theme in all cases,’’said Cyrus Mehri, a Washington lawyer, helped to protect themselves against discrimination large companies like Texaco and Coca-Cola.

Employers indicate that the motivations for promoting employees can be extremely difficult to get on criteria as diverse as training, work habits and personality characteristics. And the staff, the noisiest complain about “inch downward, as a general rule, are those who are blind, most responsible for their own mistakes, some managers say.

Bennet David Ross, Managing Partner at Seyfarth Shaw law firm in Chicago, that employers representative said that companies that have often had legitimate reasons for the increase in the bar, like the arrival of the new management team and financial difficulties, cost reductions required. Still, he said, is a sign of mismanagement at higher levels, but employees of a declaration or any special training, so that they may encounter.

”You can not simply on the crossbar in the middle of the jump,’’said Dr. Ross.

Increasingly, however, as Mr. Cooper minority of people say that this is what happened. Mr. Cooper Power Georgia occurred in the years 1973 and was a lineman since 1981. In his trial, he stated several times that Georgia Power movement was contributing to the objective of denying him a promotion, while white workers had less seniority forward.

Mr. Cooper came with six other current or former black employees of Southern Company, the parent company of Georgia Power. In fact, the color which is still pending, was aimed at the Southern Company, and certain of its subsidiaries, and it asserts that Mr. Cooper’s experience was typical for companies, the use of targeted messages in motion.

The complaint alleges that the problem of moving target post deteriorated after the Southern Company, ceased to seniority as the main way to determine which employees should be encouraged to use in monitoring mid-1990’s. Instead, the appeal is dismissed for words, it began with a very subjektiven””Interview and test procedures, the staff they need, there is a body which, in general, dominated by the white staff.

Capt. S. Ralph Tiffany, commissioned by Company B Forty-seventh NGNY regiment, was the last witness to the consideration of the fourth special session of the survey after Gov. Sulzer in the fees that Samuel Littman, a former sergeant in this organizing, promoting fair elections was refused because racial discrimination.

The historian John Hope Franklin is black to the naked eye. A boulevard named in his honor runs through Greenwood, the black section of Tulsa, Okla., where he lived as a child. The Franklins are not just black, however, but also Native American. Milley Franklin, Mr. Franklin’s grandmother, was one-quarter Choctaw and was raised as Choctaw, attending Indian schools. Her children — including John Hope Franklin’s father, the lawyer B. C. Franklin — are clearly listed on the official tribal rolls that determined who was a member of the Choctaw Nation. The rolls were important, since tribal members got land when the reservations were dissolved.

Americans are often shocked to learn that black Indians exist at all — and that Native Americans actually held slaves. Like the white slave owners they emulated, Native Americans often fathered children by enslaved women and occasionally — as in Milley Franklin’s case — treated those children as family. As a result, millions of black Americans are descended from black people who were either members of the tribes during slavery or adopted into them just after Emancipation.

White families have begun to acknowledge mixed-race connections after centuries of denial. But the attitudes of some Native Americans have not evolved in the same way. Both the Seminole and the Cherokee tribes have employed discriminatory policies to prevent black members from receiving tribal benefits — and to strip them of the right to vote in tribal elections.

The Interior Department, which oversees the tribal governments through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has historically regarded this kind of racial discrimination as a violation of 19th-century treaties that required the Indian nations to treat black members as full citizens. But the Bush administration could conceivably change course and actually validate these disc

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President F. W. de Klerk urged today that people of all races be admitted to the governing National Party, which won power more than four decades ago as the racially exclusive guarantor of Afrikaner supremacy.

President F. W. de Klerk urged today that people of all races be admitted to the governing National Party, which won power more than four decades ago as the racially exclusive guarantor of Afrikaner supremacy.

Mr. de Klerk coupled the policy reversal with an appeal for ”political cooperation across existing party lines” and suggested that the party, as it advances toward negotiations on a new political order in South Africa, would seek new alliances with other political groups as part of ”an inevitable realignment in the party political sphere.”

”The new South Africa demands that those who belong together through inner conviction should come together,” Mr. de Klerk said at a regional party convention in Durban. ”Racism and racial discrimination have had their time in South Africa.”

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The House of Representatives passed a major crime bill today after approving an amendment that would permit prisoners under death sentences to seek reversal of their sentences if they could produce evidence suggesting a pattern of racial discrimination in prior state cases.

The House of Representatives passed a major crime bill today after approving an amendment that would permit prisoners under death sentences to seek reversal of their sentences if they could produce evidence suggesting a pattern of racial discrimination in prior state cases.

The anti-discrimination measure, approved 218 to 186, would apply retroactively to existing death-penalty convictions and could have a profound effect on the country’s 2,400 death-row inmates, most of whom are black.

”Racism continues to be indigenous, not only in our society, but in our criminal-justice system,” said Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland. ”If you represent a black defendant, you know he is at greater risk than a white defendant.”

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In what appears to be a significant admission of racial problems within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the agency has reached out-of-court settlements in recent months in major discrimination cases involving black employees.

In what appears to be a significant admission of racial problems within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the agency has reached out-of-court settlements in recent months in major discrimination cases involving black employees.

One case was brought by a black agent in Chicago, and civil rights lawyers said they believed this was the first time the bureau had ever settled a racial discrimination lawsuit involving an agent.

The settlements come after a series of highly publicized and embarrassing disclosures about internal discrimination at the F.B.I., which is responsible for enforcing the nation’s civil rights laws.

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A committee appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recommended yesterday that the state halt executions until the effects of possible racial bias in capital cases are better understood.

”There are strong indications that Pennsylvania’s capital justice system does not operate in an evenhanded manner,” the committee wrote. ”Empirical studies conducted in Pennsylvania to date demonstrate that, at least in some counties, race plays a major, if not overwhelming, role in the imposition of the death penalty.”

Blacks are overrepresented on death row in Pennsylvania by all measures, the report said, with 62 percent of the inmates. Pennsylvania is, the report said, second to Louisiana in the percentage of blacks on death row, at 65 percent.

The committee urged the Supreme Court and Gov. Edward G. Rendell to impose an immediate moratorium, but it appears highly unlikely that the court or the governor will do so.

The recommendation is part of a broader 550-page report by the panel, the Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Judicial System. It has been studying the issues since 1999, said its chairman, Nicholas P. Cafardi, who is dean of Duquesne University Law School.

The committee urged the court to create a commission to study how the races of capital defendants and victims affect prosecutorial decisions and sentences. No executions should proceed, the committee said, ”until policies and procedures intended to ensure that the death penalty is administered fairly and impartially are adopted.”

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Shoney’s, the big restaurant chain which settled one of the nation’s largest racial discrimination lawsuits in 1992, is at the center of a debate between large investors and the Securities and Exchange Commission over shareholder resolutions about workplace issues.

Three religious organizations’ investment funds, and a union pension fund, have called for a shareholder vote on a proposal at Shoney’s Inc.’s annual meeting in March. The measure, if approved, would require Shoney’s to account publicly for its efforts since 1994 to reverse discriminatory employment and purchasing practices.

The Nashville-based chain, whose earnings were walloped after it paid the $103 million settlement, informed the S.E.C. last month of its decision to exclude the proposal from its proxy.

”It’s not a prudent use of our resources to generate this report,” said Betty J. Marshall, a Shoney’s spokeswoman. She said a similar request from the United Methodist Church pension fund was put before Shoney’s shareholders last year and was rejected by 82 percent of those voting.

Proponents of the Shoney’s measure say they are trying again because they believe that events at Texaco Inc. underscore why Shoney’s record on race issues is of vital interest to shareholders. Texaco management was forced to cede control of the company’s personnel policies last month as part of a settlement of a racial discrimination lawsuit.

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Last year, after 16 years as an agent in the insular fraternity of the Secret Service, Reginald G. Moore had made it to one of the most prestigious posts in the agency as a lead agent on President Clinton’s protective detail, entrusted with Mr. Clinton’s life. Mr. Moore seemed to be poised to advance to the agency’s managerial ranks.

But even though his written evaluation for 1999 shows that he was among the most outstanding agents of his rank, Mr. Moore, who is black, said he was denied a promotion and given the task of training the white agent promoted ahead of him. When Mr. Moore was reassigned to a counterfeiting squad in Dallas, he decided to defy the Secret Service’s traditional code of silence.

”I did it the way I was supposed to do it,” Mr. Moore, 40, said recently. ”I got a very, very wrong deal.”

Today, Mr. Moore officially became a lead plaintiff in a class-action complaint filed with the government’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a legal action that accuses the Secret Service of a pattern and practice of racial discrimination dating to 1987 in promotions through biased selections, highly subjective personnel evaluations, arbitrary transfers and an unfair system of bonuses and awards.

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Carol Boggess says she was ”eager and willing to serve” on the jury in the 1986 capital murder trial of Thomas Miller-El in Dallas. When questioned by prosecutors, Ms. Boggess, an occupational therapist, said she strongly supported capital punishment and ”had no doubt at all” that she could sentence a person to death.

Wayman Kennedy, a Sunday school teacher and church deacon, also wanted to be on the jury and told prosecutors he felt confident of his ability to impose a death penalty. So did Billy Jean Fields, a postal worker.

Mr. Miller-El is black. He was charged with shooting two white hotel clerks, one of them fatally, during a robbery in November 1985.

Ms. Fields, Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Boggess are also black. All were excluded from the jury panel by Dallas County prosecutors, as were seven of eight other blacks interviewed as prospective jurors.

The jury the prosecutors accepted was composed of nine whites, one Filipino, one Hispanic and one black man who told prosecutors that he thought that execution was too easy, and that the appropriate punishment for murderers was to ”pour some honey on them and stake them out over an ant bed.”

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Four persons were killed in a collision between a Long Island Railroad express train and an automobile at Central Park, a village in Nassau County thirty miles east of Brooklyn, at 5:20 o’clock yesterday afternoon.

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Thirty-five years after the dismantling of legalized segregation, a majority of Americans maintain that race relations in the United States are generally good, but blacks and whites continue to have starkly divergent perceptions of many racial issues and they remain largely isolated from each other in their everyday lives, according to a nationwide poll by The New York Times.

The poll reflected some of the same complex tensions that have surfaced in The Times’s six-week examination of contemporary race relations, ”How Race is Lived in America.” The series has portrayed a stubbornly enduring racial divide, and the poll suggested that even as the rawest forms of bigotry have receded they have often been replaced by remoteness and distrust in places of work, learning and worship.

The poll, which surveyed 2,165 adults, detected some signs that both blacks and whites believe race relations are improving. The proportion of those surveyed who said race relations in the country were generally good — 57 percent — was at its highest mark in 10 years, a full 16 percentage points higher than in 1990. Large majorities of both races — 63 percent of whites and 79 percent of blacks — said they approved of interracial marriage, compared with only 44 percent of whites and 70 percent of blacks who said so in a 1991 poll.

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Two former executives of Texaco Inc. who had been taped discussing the destruction of documents demanded in a racial-discrimination lawsuit against the company were found not guilty yesterday on charges they had tried to obstruct justice.

Lawyers for Richard Lundwall, the man who secretly recorded the meetings, and Robert Ulrich, the former treasurer of the big oil company, said the acquittals vindicated their argument that the two had done nothing illegal. But the verdict by the jury of eight men and four women in a Federal court in White Plains stunned and angered civil rights leaders, who said it was based on technicalities and sent a disturbing message about permissible behavior by corporate officers.

The jury foreman, Julius Sas, said in a telephone interview last night that the jury, which included one black woman, was initially split. But over four days, they decided that for several reasons, including the fact that gaps in the tapes created the possibility that comments could have been taken out of context, ”there was just too much doubt in our minds.”

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In a direct countermove to the United States Supreme Court, Minnesota has expanded its human rights law to broaden the rights of employees and subcontractors who want to take job discrimination complaints to the state’s courts.

In a direct countermove to the United States Supreme Court, Minnesota has expanded its human rights law to broaden the rights of employees and subcontractors who want to take job discrimination complaints to the state’s courts.

Gov. Rudy Perpich, a Democrat, has signed legislation that is the most far-reaching so far in seeking to overturn the effects of Supreme Court decisions last June on employment discrimination.

Civil rights advocates have said the rulings by the High Court made it more difficult for people to press discrimination lawsuits under Federal law.

The Minnesota legislation, would help a plaintiff in an employment discrimination case in three ways:

* It would permit a person to claim discrimination not only in hiring decisions, but also at any time after the person was hired. Subcontractors could make similar discrimination claims against a contractor.

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