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Initial reviews of Timerman's memoir were generally favorable. Now, however, an increasingly acrimonious quarrel has erupted over Timerman's testimony, involving prominent U.S. intellectuals and leaders of both the Argentine and American Jewish communities. In part, the arguments have arisen because of Timerman's political impact...
Committee Chairman Charles Percy and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts insisted that he had said that to them. Equally damaging was the claim by two of Lefever's four brothers-none of whom supported his nomination-that he considered blacks genetically inferior to whites in intelligence. Lefever denied it.
Lefever's worst liability was not ideology but his own unsteady regard for the truth. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston, a Foreign Relations Committee member, came out of the final closed hearing last week citing half a dozen instances in which Lefever had stretched the facts. Lefever denied, for instance...
Several Senators had been especially troubled by the ethics of Lefever's supposedly independent think tank in accepting money from the Nestle company, one of the world's largest sellers of infant formula, for a study of the use of baby-food supplements, a highly charged Third World...
As word of the misstatements began to spread, Cranston counted the number of Lefever supporters in the full Senate dropping from 46 to 44, while opponents rose from 39 to 48. That was enough to sustain a filibuster against Lefever on the Senate floor, and probably enough to guarantee the...