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...SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE did well last week in rejecting President Ford's nomination of former Congressman Ben B. Blackburn of Georgia to head the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the federal agency responsible for overseeing the savings and loan industry. Blackburn's record during his four terms in Congress was that of an old-style racist--he opposed public housing subsidies, voted against open housing guarantees, and described voting as a privilege rather than a right. Since savings and loan associations make more than half the home mortgage loans nationally, and the Federal Home Loan Board is responsible for setting...
...BRUCE BLACKBURN...
President Danne & Blackburn...
...Foster's death, likened to the photo I.D. system used in South Africa. In fact, Foster was opposed to the system and by skillfully leaking information to appropriate community groups had managed to nearly kill the plan by the time of his assassination. Foster and his chief aide Robert Blackburn, who was severely wounded by shotgun fire in the SLA attack, were so popular with Oakland liberals and virtually every Oakland community group that many West Coast leftists were certain that the SLA was a CIA or right-wing plot to provoke an attack on the Left...
...S.L.A. struck into public consciousness last November with a claim of responsibility for the murder of Oakland School Super intendent Marcus Foster, who was shot in a parking lot with cyanide-tipped bullets. Foster's deputy, Robert Blackburn, was wounded in the attack. Foster had incurred the wrath of a community group by proposing student identity cards to help combat violence in the junior and senior high schools. Why the terrorist organization became involved was a mystery until it was discovered that one of its members, Willie Wolfe, was also a member of the community group. Two months later, Oakland...