Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 1, 1995 TAG: 9506010096
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
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WASHINGTON - President Clinton now will take weeks and perhaps months to complete his review of government affirmative action programs, senior administration officials said Wednesday.
George Stephanopoulos, senior adviser to Clinton and director of the review process, said Clinton has not received any recommendations, had returned early drafts of the review with questions and added that the White House ``is still compiling information'' before the review and options are presented to the President.
The review, ordered by Clinton in February, was two months ago reported by White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta to be days away; officials have described it as being near conclusion every week since April.
- The Washington Post
Ousted NAACP chief heads new group
WASHINGTON - Benjamin Chavis returned to the national civil rights scene Wednesday as head of a new organization. It seeks to carry out the quasi-nationalist agenda he espoused but couldn't make stick at the NAACP.
This new entity, the National African American Leadership Summit, formalizes the ``unity'' summits Chavis began before he was fired as NAACP executive director last year.
The new group will convene at Texas Southern University in Houston on June 9-11 to approve a constitution and bylaws and establish rules for membership, said Chavis, who is the group's national spokesman.
- Associated Press
$10 million given to laud inventors
WASHINGTON - Jerome Lemelson, a prolific American inventor of high-tech components, gave the Smithsonian Institution its largest-ever cash donation Wednesday - $10.4 million, to support programs designed to boost appreciation of the nation's innovators.
The gift, to be delivered in installments over several years, will be used to establish the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, planned for the first floor of the National Museum of American History.
``Nearly every critical technological innovation of the 20th century - from microchips to microwaves ... from magnetic recording to machine vision, came forth from the minds of American citizens,'' Lemelson said Wednesday at a news conference. He listed Apple Computer masterminds Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak among today's ``wizards'' - but lamented that American youngsters know more about Michael Jordan than Thomas Edison.
- The Washington Post
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