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Rodgers understandably resented the implication. He held secret meetings with Jackson and PUSH leaders, who promised to stop claiming credit for his appointment. Rodgers also insisted that he would not sign a PUSH pact that called for hiring quotas or other specific actions. He is said to have told Jackson and the others that if PUSH is interested in cutting a better deal for blacks, it should stop pressuring him publicly. Left alone, Rodgers argued, he would appoint more blacks, but he does not want to appear to be caving in to their demands. Apparently persuaded, Jackson told TIME last...
...Philippines. Scrapping the 1973 constitution introduced by her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and dissolving the effectively powerless National Assembly dominated by Marcos' followers, she imposed a provisional constitution that allows her to rule by decree until a new charter is agreed upon. Within 60 days, Aquino promised, she will appoint a committee to draft a fresh constitution. Three months after that, she hopes to put the document to a national plebiscite. If all goes well, a new legislature will be in place within a year. In the meantime, said Aquino, the provisional "Freedom Constitution" should allow a nation undermined...
Ozment announced yesterday that he will appoint a student-faculty subcommittee to meet within the next few weeks to review the council's proposal and the logistical difficulties, Ozment said...
McLaughlin also said that should the 12 appeal the decision reached in the rehearing, "fairness dictates" that he would appoint someone else to hear the appeal on his behalf...
Sources say that because of these difficulties, the department had a very hard time coming to a consensus on whom to appoint, and that this is one of the main reasons Bok decided to appoint a special committee to examine the situation...