The equal employment opportunity policies of the Reagan administration may be summarized in the following manner: while the administration will not retreat from the historic commitment to enforce federal civil rights laws, it will no longer insist upon, or in any way support, the use of quotas or any numerical or statistical formula designed to provide to nonvictims of discrimination preferential treatment based on race, sex, national origin, or religion. This policy has been adopted for several reasons: (1) Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which mandates nondiscriminatory employment decisions, does not countenance racial quotas; (2) the economic and social strides gained by minorities in the 1960s demonstrated the capacity of minorities to compete effectively in a nondiscriminatory environment; and (3) there is no moral countenance for quotas. The number and nature of suits brought by the Justice Department to enforce equal employment opportunity legislation will not change significantly. In addition to seeking full redress for individual victims, the Department will continue to seek injunctive relief directing employers to make future nondiscriminatory employment decisions, and, where appropriate, will also seek percentage recruitment goals for monitoring purposes. (MN)