Word: leonard
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Attorney General John Mitchell, Leonard's boss and Nixon's chief political adviser, denies that he is pursuing a Southern strategy. Last week he maintained that a gradual, conciliatory approach was the only way to desegregate the schools without provoking an uproar that would be damaging to education. Mitchell and HEW Secretary Robert Finch said that they feared that the Supreme Court's "cold-turkey" approach would accelerate the exodus of whites to proliferating private schools, eroding taxpayer support for the public schools and thereby undermining the education given to the blacks and poor whites who remain...
Southern Strategy. The court's order brushed aside a Justice Department request to allow school boards time to draw up their own plans. The request, prepared by Jerris Leonard, chief of the Civil Rights Division, made it plain that the Administration does not plan to abandon its passive role in the desegregation fight, a role that, as part of the President's "Southern strategy," is calculated to build the Republican Party in Dixie. There was nothing in Leonard's proposal to suggest a firm determination to enforce the law. On the contrary, it could be construed...
Invitation to Resistance. The upheaval that Mitchell fears is encouraged by the Administration's attitude. Leonard's disingenuous remark several weeks ago that he would not have enough "bodies" to enforce desegregation encourages resistance, according to Gary Greenberg. Greenberg had been senior trial lawyer in the Civil Rights Division until Leonard fired him for protesting the slowdown in desegregation. He said: "The invitation to reopen the era of massive resistance is inherent in such an attitude. It makes it infinitely more difficult to bring about obedience...
Defeated Council candidate Leonard J. Russell has filed a valid petition for a recount. Russell finished tenth in the race for nine council seats: he was 79 votes behind incumbent Thomas H.D. Mahoney when counted out of the race...
...Noon. however, is not the bill's climax-it is Leonard Melfi's concluding Night that is the outstanding offering. Void of the earlier comedy. Night is set in a graveyard where the four corners of America have gathered to mourn the death of the enigmatic Cock Certain. Like the impoverished Italians of Pasolini's Teorama these Americans seem to be struggling, each to possess alone the memory of Cock Certain, perhaps their Christ, perhaps their Satan, surely their source of life. Their struggle though is ultimately a dance of death, as yet another enigmatic figure, a man dressed...