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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Racism at Lockheed Alleged: A group of black Lockheed Corp. workers and former employees complained in Sunnyvale, Calif., of racism on the job, from spoken slurs to “KKK” scrawled on time cards. The allegations came three months after a jury awarded $925,000 to Norman Drake, a black engineer who complained of harassment. Tony Eckford, an engineer who said he was fired a month ago for wearing a “Stop Racism at Lockheed” T-shirt, organized a rally to protest the alleged racism. Lockheed declined comment on Eckford’s allegations because of a pending discrimination suit that Eckford filed against Lockheed in 1989.

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