Word: panetta
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...Languages. Glazer provides a useful civics lesson in how difficult it is to stop bureaucratic action once it has been set in motion. When President Nixon was making headlines for his supposed slowdown of desegregation in the South, just the opposite was happening, says Glazer. Bureaucrats directed by Leon Panetta, head of the Office of Civil Rights, ignored Nixon and kept pressure on the South. While the end was desirable, the means were dangerous. Panetta even withheld relief to noncomplying Southern school districts in the wake of Hurricane Camille in 1969. Writes Glazer: "There is much to be learned about...
...LEON E. PANETTA...
...Nixon made his March 24 desegregation statement, he drew a line between segregation sanctioned by official policy (de jure) and that resulting from segregated housing patterns (de facto). Nixon has long been opposed to busing purely for the purpose of integration. The firing of HEW Civil Rights Chief Leon Panetta and Education Commissioner James Allen, both strong advocates of integration, has made it clear that the Administration's objectives are limited. Only last week, in a Supreme Court case involving schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C., the Justice Department supported a lower court decision that said only "reasonable...
Unheard Call. Then in succession came Administration policy on school-desegregation guidelines, voting rights, the nominations to the Supreme Court of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, and the departure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare of Leon Panetta, who had been a determined fighter for desegregation of schools in the South. "And let's use the right word," said Brooke. "He was fired...
Bitter Disappointment. Scott's was not the only voice raised against Administration civil rights policy last week. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch announced the replacement of Leon Panetta, the ousted Office of Civil Rights chief, with J. Stanley Pottinger, 30, a lawyer in HEW's San Francisco regional office. The appointment did nothing to soothe the anger of those who had supported Panetta. Two OCR officials resigned, 125 staff members sent the President a 1etter expressing "bitter disappointment" with the Administration's performance on civil rights, and' 1,800 departmental employees signed a petition...