21.   But racial issues surfaced at the start of his term and have re-emerged in a very different form now that it is ending.

22.   But should the United Nations ever endorse reparations, it gives the demagogues a cudgel with which to brain moderate politicians interested in actual progress on racial issues.

23.   But the mayor has also been accused of serious political miscalculations on racial issues.

24.   But some black students and black faculty members said the measures being taken by the administration could bring progress in dealing with racial issues.

25.   But two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings on racial issues have pumped new vigor into the group, said acting executive director Earl Shinhoster.

26.   But what has already been achieved is a new willingness to discuss once-touchy racial issues, said Williams, Nicholson and others.

27.   But when questions focused more specifically on racial issues, a schism quickly emerged.

28.   Clinton also is to meet in December with conservative scholars of racial issues.

29.   Clinton said the best hope of avoiding the ethnic strife that has torn apart other nations lay in an honest discussion of racial issues.

30.   Clinton, who signaled his displeasure with the Dallas event through a spokesman yesterday, has urged Americans of all backgrounds to confront racial issues openly and honestly.