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...only serious controversy revolved around the nomination of Carter's fellow Georgian and longtime friend, Federal Judge Griffin Bell, to be Attorney General. The N.A.A.C.P., the Congressional Black Caucus and some liberal Democrats all assailed Bell. Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged that Bell had given "aid and comfort to segregationists" while an Atlanta attorney, chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver and a member of the federal bench. Black Caucus Chairman Parren Mitchell accused Bell of being "the mastermind of Georgia's massive resistance" to school desegregation when...
...Washington restaurant consulting firm. However, Schneiders was cleared last week by U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert of any wrongdoing and is expected to get another job. Meantime, Carter named Tim Kraft, 35, to handle his appointments. Kraft impressed his boss by engineering the key victories in the Iowa caucus and the Pennsylvania primary...
...Gandhi's ambitious son, Sanjay, 30-he is currently using the youth wing of the party as a power base-whose politics seem pragmatic and even downright antiCommunist. In a lightly veiled reference to Sanjay's following, the C.P.I, attacked what it called a "reactionary caucus" within the Congress. The C.P.I. backed Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point emergency program for social and economic reform, but pointedly withheld support from Sanjay's five-point youth program, which calls for increased family planning, more tree planting, better sanitation, higher literacy and the abolition of dowries...
...only hitch in Byrd's arduous climb to the top may be the secret vote in the 62-Senator Democratic caucus. Head counters give Byrd 30 votes, two 14 short of a majority, and Humphrey 22. Humphrey hopes to pick up the ten votes he needsthat Byrd is acceptable to labor. He wasn't about to go against a sure winner." Humphrey's health also worries Senators, who wonder whether he will have the vitality for the job after undergoing removal of his cancerous bladder. Says Hubert, who insists that he has been advised he is healthy enough: "I prefer...
Women's groups also continued to bombard him with complaints against Dunlop, claiming that he had been insensitive to improving equal employment rights when he was Ford's Labor Secretary. They were quickly joined by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Congress Watch, the congressional Black Caucus and other groups. But Carter was caught in a crossfire from most of organized labor, which wanted Dunlop. At one point, Carter aides asked AFL-CIO officials to suggest alternatives to Dunlop who would be acceptable to Labor Boss