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Bitter Disappointment. Scott's was not the only voice raised against Administration civil rights policy last week. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch announced the replacement of Leon Panetta, the ousted Office of Civil Rights chief, with J. Stanley Pottinger, 30, a lawyer in HEW's San Francisco regional office. The appointment did nothing to soothe the anger of those who had supported Panetta. Two OCR officials resigned, 125 staff members sent the President a 1etter expressing "bitter disappointment" with the Administration's performance on civil rights, and' 1,800 departmental employees signed a petition...
...their own group in opposition. "We were really getting clobbered," recalls Jack Germond, Washington bureau chief for the Gannett newspapers. "So in self-defense we set up 'Political Writers for a Democratic Society.' We've had about eight or nine dinners, with people like Finch, Rogers Morton, Muskie...
...forced out because of his allegedly excessive zeal in coercing Southern school districts to integrate under threat of losing their federal subsidies. "Panetta," explained a White House source, "was doing his thing, not the President's thing." The ouster further weakened the position of HEW Secretary Robert Finch, one of the few progressive counterweights to conservative influence on the racial issue in the Administration's top echelon. It also raised the suspicion that Education Commissioner lames E. Allen, another liberal subordinate of Finch's, might soon be forced out. > The Senate, by 56 to 36, passed...
After second-line center Larry Desmond flicked another score past Finch seven minutes later, McManama quickly tallied his second and third goals...
Halfway through the second period, however, the Warriors-who brought only two lines and two sets of defensemen to Watson-seemed to tire and loss their scrappiness. And soon after, Merrimack goalie Pat Finch was hit in the head by a slap shot. Raising his hand to his head repeatedly throughout the rest of the game, he was significantly less effective...