The Nation - News from Oct. 3, 1986
President Reagan signed a bill prohibiting the nation’s airlines from discriminating against handicapped people in providing air travel. The new law sets a 120-day deadline for the Transportation Department to write regulations ensuring non-discriminatory treatment of handicapped people by the airlines. A Supreme Court decision last June held that a federal ban on discrimination against the handicapped applied only to airline companies receiving direct federal subsidies.
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