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State Sen. Julian Bond (D-Ga.) last night spoke at the Law School Forum, reviewing the historical situation of black Americans and urging black leaders to broaden their focus and aim for racial, social and economic equality...
...March 8, the health subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee held its first set of hearings on Hale Champion's nomination as Undersecretary. Most of the questions were routine. But then Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), chairman of the health subcommittee, asked Champion about the Souza case and Walsh's resignation. Champion replied that Walsh had simply been instructed to keep the General Counsel's Office informed of his activities, not to actually "clear his work" with the counsel. Champion also said that until the HEW Inspector General was installed in the then empty post--Congress had only created...
...months, his nomination languished in the Senate Finance Committee. On March 8, the Health subcommittee, chaired by Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), held a hearing on his nomination that committee staff members said was routine...
WHEN PRESIDENT CARTER appointed then Representative Andrew J. Young (D-Ga.) as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in December, many observers applauded the appointment--for the wrong reasons. On the domestic front, it was felt that a black of Young's intelligence, personal assurance and civil rights credentials filling a high-profile, cabinet-level post would boost American interest in and identification with the New Administration's initiatives, particularly in foreign affairs. Internationally, they hoped, Young would serve as a symbolic bridge between the Carter administration and the Third World, particularly Africa...
Pentagon supporters in the Congress wasted little time in launching a determined and vehement assault on the Warnke nomination, led by Senate hawks like Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) of the Armed Services Committee. Although the Pentagon camp has often distorted Warnke's views (as in the anonymous memorandum circulated earlier this month in the Senate), there are two clear positions at the heart of the disagreement. First, Warnke has questioned the utility of numerical military superiority in the nuclear age. While conceding that deterrence requires a perceivable ability to retaliate effectively in response...