The Nation : U.S. Rebuffed on Quotas

Most state and local governments are not following the lead of the Reagan Administration to alter existing affirmative action programs to hire and promote minorities and women, according to a survey by the Bureau of National Affairs, a publisher of specialized information on business, law and other areas. Of 53 jurisdictions asked by the Justice Department to eliminate agreements to hire a quota of minority or women employees, only three, the Arkansas state police, the Buffalo, N.Y., Fire and Police departments and the Wichita Falls, Tex., Police Department, are willing to join the federal government effort, the bureau reported.