World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-06-05
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[0:27] Join Paul Linman and Melissa Mills
[0:29] tonight on Channel 2 News at 6:30
[0:32] [music]
[0:34] from ABC. This is World News Tonight
[0:37] with Peter Jennings.
[0:38] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with one
[0:39] of the most inflammatory issues in all
[0:41] American politics, the issue of race.
[0:44] Two days of debate on a new civil rights
[0:46] bill have now come to an end in the
[0:47] House of Representatives. And what has
[0:49] emerged is a civil rights bill very
[0:51] specifically identified with the
[0:53] Democrats. a bill designed to make it
[0:55] less difficult for individuals to win in
[0:58] court cases where they have charged
[1:00] their employers with discrimination. It
[1:02] passed by a margin of more than a 100
[1:04] votes, but still that was not enough to
[1:06] override the veto which President Bush
[1:09] has promised. Here's ABC's Koki Roberts.
[1:12] >> In a final effort to win support for
[1:15] their civil rights bill, Democrats today
[1:17] tried to portray it as just another step
[1:20] in the march toward equality under the
[1:22] law. In our day, in our time, we must
[1:27] not ever allow the clock to be turned
[1:30] back on race relations in this country.
[1:34] >> Republicans countered that the bill
[1:35] would divide rather than unite.
[1:38] >> We nee