Word: pendleton
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...turned out to be an especially unflinching warrior in the struggle for civil rights. In recent months, after having concluded that Reagan and company lacked commitment to the cause, he began attacking the Administration. Last week he found himself out of a job. Nominated as his successor: Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., 51, a black Republican, president of the Urban League of San Diego and a friend of White House Counsellor Edwin Meese...
...chosen to succeed Flemming is a onetime swimming coach at Howard University in Washington, D.C., who ran the Model Cities program in San Diego from 1972 to 1975 before becoming head of the local chapter of the National Urban League. Pendleton campaigned for Reagan last year, and though he promises to try to block any effort to soften the Voting Rights Act, he shares Reagan's opposition to busing and affirmative action-policies staunchly supported by the commission...
...Pendleton claims that under his leadership the San Diego Urban League has created some 8,000 new jobs, arranged $24 million in business loans and boosted the chapter's land holdings from $218,000 to $3 million. Yet local blacks charge that Pendleton has ignored the league's traditional work in the social-service areas of education, housing and legal aid. Counters Pendleton: "The best social program I know...
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...Pendleton James is occupying the other easy chair by the fire, and the subject is personnel. Jim Cavanaugh, who has been assisting James temporarily, is returning to his home in California. Since coming to Washington, Reagan has been complaining about the cold and joking about defecting. "Wait until I get my hat," he tells Cavanaugh. "I'll go with...