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...resort (they are now urged but not compelled to resort to busing only after alternatives have been tried); 2) provide federal funds to improve schools and encourage voluntary integration; and 3) set up a national council to mediate local disputes before they reach court judgment. Meanwhile, Solicitor General Robert Bork prepared an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief that at least partly upheld busing opponents in Boston...
When word of Bork's brief leaked, Levi insisted that he still had not made up his mind and that he still regards busing as "an appropriate tool" for school integration. Back in Boston, where passions have just begun to cool following a wave of racially motivated violence, Brooke wondered why the Government would involve itself at this time "and confuse the matter." Since the Supreme Court will decide the issue, with or without Justice Department intervention, it seemed an appropriate question...
Among its most important members: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Attorney General Edward Levi, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz (though he only studied at Chicago for a summer en route to a doctorate from Purdue), Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, Presidential Adviser Robert Goldwin and Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. The biggest representation is at the State Department, an almost exclusively Eastern preserve until after World War II. Now Chicago takes credit for the department's No. 2 man, Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Secretary of State who was educated at Yale but is a trustee at Chicago...
...called Jewish seat has been empty since Fortas' 1969 departure. Ford might look to his Cabinet, which includes Carla A. Hills, 41, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Attorney General Edward Levi, 64. Among other possibilities in the wide-open guessing game: Solicitor General Robert Bork, 48; California Republican Congressman Charles Wiggins, 47, and at least nine federal-appeals-court judges...
JUSTICE, six-John Mitchell, Richard Kleindienst, Richardson, Robert Bork (acting Attorney General), William Saxbe, Edward Levi...