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According to Tom Atkins, head of the Boston NAACP and a longtime observer and participant in Boston politics, black voters have supplied White's winning margin in his three mayoral races. In return, Atkins claims, White has given blacks nothing more than "Griffin Bells...
...report on its affirmative action plan, Harvard says that it will have no spaces for female or minority faculty members until 1984. Reached for comment in Washington, D.C., Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice-designate Griffin Bell says, "You can't say they didn...
...final lineup was the result of tough infighting among competing interests, and fancy-even tricky-maneuvering on Carter's part. The most egregious example was his appointment as Attorney General: Griffin Bell, a former federal appeals-court judge. Black leaders were outraged at the choice (see box opposite page...
...accounts, Jimmy Carter knew there would be some hot reaction to his nomination of an old Georgia chum and political confidant, former Federal Judge Griffin Bell, as Attorney General. The transition team at the Justice Department had sent a memo to Plains warning of a storm of protests. They were right-and the storm went beyond black leaders' upset about Bell's mixed record on civil rights during his 14 years on the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Editorial outrage ran the political gamut. The New York Times's James Reston blasted the nomination...
Jimmy Carter emphasized the need for an Attorney General far removed from politics. Yet the man he is expected to select for the post early this week has close political as well as personal ties to Carter. Griffin B. Bell, 58, who served as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge for 14 years, has been a friend and adviser of Carter's since the President-elect became Georgia's Governor in 1971. Though Bell held no official position in the campaign, he was consulted by both Carter and his aides...