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Ewart Guinier '33 symbolically handed over the chairmanship of the Afro-American Studies Department to his successor, Eileen Southern, in a farewell dinner at Mather House last night...
Informal Manner. In 1972, Nixon summoned Bush from the U.N. to assume the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. As the Watergate scandal engulfed Nixon, Bush worked hard to reduce the damage to the party. His efforts won him the friendship of Gerald Ford, who in 1974 named Bush chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. In that lonely outpost, Bush and his wife Barbara-their five children remained in the U.S.-have with their informal manner made friends among the Chinese. They take bicycle tours around the city, play tennis at the international tennis club, and give hamburger...
...Barney Frank. Bayh's Indiana senatorial margins have always been slim, but he has been working since before 1972 to create a national constituency. An early and effective Nixon foe, Bayh led the opposition to the Haynesworth and Carswell Supreme Court nominations. He parlayed an obscure sub-committee chairmanship, that of the Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, into landmark legislation and Six O'Clock News Slots. Bayh's presidential succession amendment of 1967, designed to prevent vacancies in the office of Vice President, instead precipitated the Nixon/Ford/Rockefeller brand of participatory democracy. Bayh also claims credit for steering...
Southern, who is only the second person and the first woman to receive tenure in Afro since the department was established in 1969, will assume the chairmanship of the department this spring from Ewart Guinier '33, who will be 66 years old--the mandatory age at which chairmen must retire...
Brutal Actions. Traditionally, the rotating OAU chairmanship honors the leader of the host nation for each year's summit. Perhaps fearing the worst, moderate African leaders plotted desperately to bypass Big Daddy when Uganda's turn as host rolled unavoidably around this year. In the past, the continent's heads of state have tended to ignore Amin's buffoonery and instability. Recently, though, they have been embarrassed by growing evidence of his brutal actions. Since Big Daddy seized power four years ago, an estimated 50,000 enemies of his regime have been murdered. He has expelled...