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WHEN President-Elect George Bush announced his choice of Edwin J. Derwinski as Secretary of Veterans Affairs two weeks ago, hardly anyone noticed. But in light of Derwinski's past association with fascists and anti Semites, It's about time we pay closer attention...
...lifers remain opposed to the nomination. Nevertheless, it came on Thursday, when Bush announced Sullivan's appointment, along with that of New Mexico Congressman Manuel Lujan as Secretary of the Interior; Samuel K. Skinner, a former U.S. Attorney from Illinois, to be Secretary of Transportation; and former Congressman Ed Derwinski of Illinois to head the new Department of Veterans Affairs. Two days later, Bush added a woman to his Cabinet when he named Elizabeth Dole, who was Secretary of Transportation under Ronald Reagan and is the wife of Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, to be Secretary of Labor...
...without putting his gym bag through metal detectors. Upon reaching the seventh-floor "corridor of power," he went into a men's room and assembled a rifle from the bag's contents. Then he confronted his mother Carole, 44, a secretary in the office of State Department Counselor Edward Derwinski. After an exchange of words, Doster shot and killed her, then himself. Last month, he had been charged by Alexandria, Va., police with beating her repeatedly...
...seats of three black Democratic Congressmen, despite sharp population declines in their Chicago districts; two Republican incumbents, however, were dumped into the same new district. "The rest of the state suffered because of first having to take care of those three districts artificially," complains G.O.P. Congressman Edward J. Derwinski, who was shifted into the district of a fellow Republican. In Missouri, a three-judge federal panel redrew the map to save the seat of Democrat William Clay, a black whose St. Louis district has lost 25% of its population since 1970. In preserving Clay's seat, the judges combined...
...domestic front, Democratic opponents would by now have stripped the civil service reform bill of the Administration's key provisions were it not for the support of Republican Representatives Ed Derwinski and Tom Corcoran of Illinois and James Leach of Iowa. In the House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York and other Republicans have defended the Administration's free-trade policies against the Democrats' more protectionist attitudes...