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...controversy over the commission first erupted last May, when President Reagan replaced three members with appointees who shared his opposition to racial quotas and busing. "We wanted our own people," said White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Two of the sacked members, Mary Frances Berry and Blandina Cardenas Ramirez, sued in federal court for an injunction forbidding their removal, arguing that the action violated the commission's legal status as an independent body. More than 30 Senators and 19 Representatives lined up to sponsor a bipartisan resolution to have commission members appointed by Congress rather than by the President. After...
Berry and Ramirez were the dissenters in the 6-to-2 vote that opposed the affirmative-action plan of the Detroit police department. The commission's statement deplored the use of quotas, saying that they create "a new class of victims" by denying equal rights to majority groups...
...commissioners, Mary France Berry and Blandina Cardness Ramises-both of whom congress blocked Reagan from firing last October-have publicly lambassed for his ties with the Administration. "I am not sure what the relationship is, but the Chairman [Pendleton] mentions Ed Meese's name in every other sentence," Commissioner Ramirez, a three-year veteran on the board, charges...
...reversal of the Commission's traditional stand on these issues could not have been more complete. Ramirez, who, with Berry, clashed consistently with Pendleton in the two-day meeting, says she discerned a clear pattern in the voting. First, the majority of the commissioners seek to protect Reagan from criticism they "rush to support the Administration without sufficient study and deliberation," Ramirez says. The previous Commission has been unabashed critical of the President. But perhaps the most devasting of the body's tendencies--certainly for women and minorities--is its condemnation of affirmative action as adversely affecting whites...
...least five ideologically diverse groups promptly claimed "credit" for the bombings. From one of these groups re-emerged the Venezuelan terrorist Illitch Ramirez-Sánchez, better known as the infamous and long-sought "Carlos," who in 1982 masterminded a previous French train bombing. His Organization of Armed Arab Struggle announced in several phone calls to the press that the bombings were in response to last November's air raids on Shi'ite Muslim barracks in the ancient Lebanese city of Baalbek. At least 39 people died in those raids. But it is also possible that the most...