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Making Waves for a Wilson Wipeout
Cooper, Marc | September 18, 1995 issue

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When California Governor Pete Wilson stood before the July 20 meeting of the Republican- picked University of California Regents and ramrodded through his abolition of affirmative action programs, he finally got his sputtering presidential bid off the ground. Wilson caught a frothy wave of national publicity and surfed right up to the top of the news coverage as the angry white candidate standing up to a nagging Jesse Jackson. Indeed, Wilson may have inadvertently induced the stubborn creation of an effective liberal/progressive California coalition that plans not only to make the University of California system "ungovernable" in the coming weeks but aims to defeat the Wilson- backed California Civil Rights Initiative.

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WILSON, Pete; AFFIRMATIVE action programs; PUBLICITY; JACKSON, Jesse, 1941-; CIVIL rights; CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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