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...Republican National Committee. The removal of Flemming and Horn marks only the second time in the commission's 24-year history that a President has fired members.* Black leaders across the U.S. promptly blasted the move as a threat to the committee's tradition of outspoken independence. "Arthur Flemming was dismissed for doing his job too well," charged Democratic Congressman Harold Washington of Illinois. Alluding to the body's lack of enforcement power, National Urban Coalition President M. Carl Holman said, "I don't see how you gain anything, even symbolically, doing something like this...
...effort to accelerate negotiations with Egypt toward finding some form of autonomy for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. But any hopeful signs were overshadowed by a vituperative Israeli blast against the Administration's friends in Riyadh and by tough talk from the newly outspoken Saudis, who went so far as to suggest bringing the Soviet Union into Middle East diplomacy. Even Reagan's success in forging a warm, personal relationship with Hussein was less cheering than it might be: at the end of a visit to Washington, the Jordanian King surprised his host...
...platform of sound fiscal management. In Miami, where an influx of Caribbean refugees and a burgeoning drug trade have caused a paroxysm of violent crime, Cuban-born Challenger Manolo Reboso, 46, is counting on heavy Cuban support to unseat four-term Incumbent Maurice Ferre. Reboso is an outspoken admirer of the late Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza and was a leader of Democrats supporting Reagan. Perhaps the most direct, if quixotic, challenge to Reagan Administration policies came in a nonbinding referendum in Boston. Proposed was an increase in "quality education, public transportation, energy-efficient housing and other essential services-by reducing...
chose Methodist Bishop James Armstrong of Indiana for a three-year term as president. Strong-willed and outspoken, Armstrong, 57, is the sort of burly, smiling, old-fashioned doer who can wrangle with opponents while magically retaining their affection...
When Fenwick first came to Congress in 1975, she took Washingtonians by surprise. How could they know that the elegant, gracious Mrs. Fenwick was also an outspoken, steel-strapped pipe-smoker? As Bella Abzug told her, "Everyone expected you to be an uptight dowager." Perhaps Lacey Davenport, her caricature in the Doonesbury comic strip, explains best what Capitol Hill denizens really found. Charming and upbeat, she was unafraid to tangle with the personalities that might have had the power to end her career...