Word: alameda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of Asian-American student admission been more bitterly fought than at Berkeley. Activist groups charge that if acceptances were based purely on merit, there would be even more Asian-American students than the 5,610 who now make up a quarter of the 22,000 undergraduates. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ken M. Kawaichi, co-chairman of the Asian American Task Force on University Admissions, assails Berkeley's "good old boy" administrators. "The campus they envision is mostly white, mostly upper middle class with limited numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians," says Kawaichi. "One day they looked around...
...Constitution. But the role has been unusual for a man more accustomed to laboring in the background for a single, all-consuming cause: Ronald Reagan. The two first met 20 years ago this month, when Reagan was the newly elected Governor of California and Meese a hard-line Alameda County deputy district attorney. Joining Reagan's staff as legal-affairs adviser, Meese soon rose to become chief of staff. A trusted but low-profile aide, Meese perfected the one-page "mini-memo," in which complex issues were reduced to a few paragraphs for a chief executive who had little patience...
James Hinkle's ordeal began when he ran into a snag while loading a $400 program called Framework into his Kaypro Model 16 computer. He carefully reread the Framework instruction book for guidance but failed to find it. Stymied, the Alameda, Calif., dentist called the service number printed in the manual. The number was busy, but after dialing repeatedly over a period of several hours, Hinkle eventually made the connection--to a recorded message instructing him to call a different number, which was also busy. Says the normally mild-mannered Hinkle: "I started in the morning...
...magazines and L'Humanite, the French Communist paper, were available along with El Mercurio, the official newspaper. This past year, demonstrations of nonviolent opposition to the junta began on campuses and spread through the city. Our friends described to us the moving spectacle of the people marching down the Alameda, open palms raised to show "Our hands are clean," as black helicopters--no doubt American-made--circled just feet overhead. But the government did not halt the protests...
...former prosecutor in Alameda County, Calif., Meese prides himself on being tough on crime. But two widely publicized cases have led to criticism that he is soft on well-connected criminals. In May the Justice Department accepted a settlement allowing the E.F. Hutton brokerage company to plead guilty to a massive check- kiting scheme, but declined to seek indictments of any of the firm's officers, although Hutton was fined $2 million. Meese has also had to defend the Justice Department's protection of Jackie Presser, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the only major union boss...