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Subject: Re: New York Officials Act Against Northern Ireland Discrimination
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> 	Both Goldin and Albanese have addressed the issue of discriminatory
> unemployment in Northern Ireland where the unemployment rate for Nationalists
> is two and one-half times the rate of unemployment for Loyalists.

Has anyone determined that the cause of this difference is in fact
discrimination?  Or is there a preffered advantage in hiring
"Loyalists" over "Nationalists" (who *are* these people, anyway?).

Sometimes culture has more to do with these things that one would like
to think.
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Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam