Word: appointed
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...treason for trying to create autonomous local government structures, were acquitted, and last year the Sharpeville Six, sentenced to hang for their part in the murder of a black township official, obtained commutations of their death sentences. Perhaps the biggest advance is the recent working paper of a government-appoint ed law commission, which has proposed a South African Bill of Rights, an end to apartheid laws and an equal vote for all South Africans...
With Congress on vacation, Bush now has the authority to appoint people to acting positions in the administration without Senate approval. Although it is unclear if Bush will name Lucas to a Justice Department post, the president, who has drawn criticism for not filling important positions, should be able to put together the rest of the executive branch puzzle...
...Raab admits that he and Brady have never got along. Brady, he says, has treated the drug issue as a "bother" and has hardly discussed it with him. A spokesman for Brady counters that "Mr. Von Raab's judgment may be affected by the decision to appoint a new Customs commissioner...
...work with his wife Maria in the Virginia Organization to Keep Abortion Legal. But pro-choice sentiment is frustrated as far as Virginia's gubernatorial race is concerned. The Republican candidate, former state attorney general Marshall Coleman, is a strict antiabortionist who says that if he wins, he will appoint only pro-lifers to health and children's services positions. His Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, is seeking to become the first black elected to govern a state, and will not risk alienating moderate voters. So he has been waffling on abortion, proposing that parental consent be required...
...Ronald Reagan's main goals as President was to put his conservative stamp on the federal judiciary. His success on that score was dazzling. Thanks to the large number of openings that occurred during his two terms in the White House, Reagan was able to appoint 346 federal judges -- more than any other President in American history. "It is one of his most enduring legacies, and one of his most significant," says William Bradford Reynolds, the controversial former Assistant Attorney General for civil rights in the Reagan Administration...