The Nation - News from Nov. 4, 1985
The chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said he expects President Reagan to adopt a new executive order on hiring that abolishes preferential treatment for women and minorities. “I think it’s going to be clear that there’s going to be an order signed where there won’t be any preferential treatment and where statistical imbalance in the work force will not trigger a finding of discrimination,” commission Chairman Clarence M. Pendleton Jr. said on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation.”
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