QUOTAMANIA

PRESIDENT CLINTON HAS VOWED that his administration will “mend” affirmative action. Thus, the axing of a $ 1 billion Pentagon set-aside program, announced on October 23, might well be mistaken for a sign of things to come. In reality, administration documents show that Clinton is bent on maintaining racial preference programs.

“The administration was forced to drop the Pentagon program because of pending litigation in New Mexico,” explains Rep. Charles Canady, chairman of the Constitution subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. “They had to defend the indefensible or abandon the program. They chose the latter.”