Nation IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : Wilder Blasts Bush Civil Rights Record

Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, considered a potential Democratic presidential candidate, attacked President Bush’s civil rights record before a national lawyers’ convention in Atlanta. Wilder, who is black, condemned Bush’s threat to veto a pending civil rights bill. “The President is steadfastly refusing to sign a bill which he knows is not a quota bill,” Wilder told the American Bar Assn. “I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with the President and educate him on what real quotas are all about. Having lived a majority of my life in a society that imposed quotas in every aspect of daily life imaginable, I know of what I speak,” he said.