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Administration officials admit that they have been indulging at least one prejudice. "There is a conscious attempt," says Rees, "to avoid appointing people who will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic, and 22 female. The long-term impact of younger white male appointments is troubling to liberal activists like Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They will just be hitting their stride in 15 years," she says. "In any question that pits the rights of the individual...
...Miami the rise of Cuban political power led to the fall of Puerto Rican-born Mayor Maurice Ferre in a blustery eleven-man race. For the past twelve years Ferre had adroitly managed to hold together a coalition of Miami's black, Hispanic and white voters. He lost black support when he pushed out black City Manager Howard Gary last year; Cubans, who now compose 36% of Miami's electorate, also turned out in large numbers against him. After a close race in which outrageous charges and name-calling were routine, two Cuban-born candidates, Raul Masvidal and Xavier Suarez...
...faced it straight on. In a return appearance before a commission of investigators that he had appointed to look into the police helicopter bombing of a radical, back-to-nature cult's row house last May, the mayor acknowledged some degree of culpability in the events that left eleven dead, 61 houses destroyed by fire and 250 people homeless. "Could [I] have made a better decision?" the mayor asked the commission. "The answer is yes. Did I make a mistake? The answer is yes. I don't know what to say other than I'm sorry...
Despite the mayor's apology, the eleven-member panel adjourned after five weeks of testimony from 88 witnesses without clearly defining who was to blame for what Goode called "one of the most devastating days in the history of our city." Goode continued to insist that he was misled by subordinates who provided him with imprecise information. Contradictory statements by the mayor, Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor, Fire Commissioner William Richmond and City Managing Director Leo Brooks, who has since resigned, were not resolved. At issue was whether the mayor knew that police intended to use explosives on Move's fortified...
...before the disaster, he had been under heavy political attack for his Nov. 6 decision to send army troops against M-19 guerrillas who had taken over Bogotá's Palace of Justice. The spectacular and bloody assault horrified television viewers around the world and left nearly 100 dead, including eleven Colombian Supreme Court Justices...