Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!pesnta!amdcad!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics,net.legal Subject: Re: New York Officials Act Against Northern Ireland Discrimination Message-ID: <985@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 23:09:55 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.985 Posted: Sat Jan 19 23:09:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 02:15:28 EST References: <375@bonnie.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.flame:7888 net.politics:6997 net.legal:1331 > 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. -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam