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Behind the scenes, Hyman has served as an effective deputy, keeping quietly above the fray while holding together the central administration and pushing key initiatives while Summers and Mass. Hall staff shifted into damage control...
Haddad seems to hover above the fray, just trying to be a friendly guy at the helm of an organization with a lot of baggage. During a recent job interview, instead of impressing the interviewer with his published poems or his other accomplishments, Haddad instead tried to make friends...
...city's white sector. Bewildered lunchtime shoppers there dived for cover as police launched an assault on a group of blacks outside a courthouse in which three men were on trial for murdering a police officer. Hundreds of bystanders of several races were caught up in the fray as security officers used truncheons and whips in their efforts to clear the streets. In predawn raids the following day, police arrested more than 60 activists, including leaders of the multiracial United Democratic Front, 16 of whose members are now on trial in Pietermaritzburg for treason...
...complains Rees angrily. "They say that no matter how well qualified a candidate is, he can't be a judge if he shares President Reagan's opinion of abortion or affirmative action." The escalation of partisan infighting has begun to worry close observers who take neither side in the fray. Constitutional Scholar Archibald Cox, who was fired as special Watergate prosecutor by President Nixon, fears that politicizing the appointment process endangers something more crucial to the nation than either party's social agenda. He warns, "The idea of judicial independence may be at risk." Neither side could welcome such...
...deadlock lingered into last week, when lawmakers returned to hot, muggy Washington after a ten-day Fourth of July break. "We're pretty much split down the middle," House Minority Leader Robert Michel said of the impasse. By then Reagan was ready to get back into the fray. Last Tuesday evening he held a reception for congressional leaders of both parties under the oak tree in the Rose Garden. It was at this "Oak Tree meeting" that the President surprised his guests by simply backing down on Social Security, agreeing to dispense with the COLA freeze...