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...have been angered and disgusted, not to mention sickened and saddened by my fellow newsmen," confessed Jack Tarver, publisher of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, in an indignant editorial last week. "It would serve us right if the judge were to tell us where to stick the attorney generalship and we wound up with another John Mitchell or Richard Kleindienst...
...judge, of course, is Attorney General-designate Griffin Bell. The cause of Tarver's outrage was the coast-to-coast outcry over the fact that Bell and two other top-level Jimmy Carter appointees belong to Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, which bars membership to blacks and Jews (the other appointees: Atlanta Banker Bert Lance, Carter's proposed budget director, and Houston Businessman Charles Duncan Jr., a former Atlanta resident who was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense). Bell and Lance have promised to resign, but at week's end Duncan had not yet decided what...
plea, which normally enables the accused to avoid the death penalty, Samuel Barlow, 18, Foster Tarver, 17, and Sharon Wiggins, 17, were sentenced to die in the electric chair for first-degree murder. To be sure, the three had not shown any mercy to George Morelock, a bank customer who was shot six times when he advanced toward Sharon after being ordered to stand against a wall. "This was a murder in cold blood," said one of the three judges who handed down the death sentence...
...Looking. There is no evidence that Georgia Power complained, but its influence is so pervasive in Atlanta that it does not have to. The night the column appeared, B.J. learned that Tarver felt her column should be limited to "topics she is qualified to write about." Next morning B.J.'s resignation was on Patterson's desk...
Patterson, upset, demanded that the resignation be rejected and that he maintain control of his editorial page. When Tarver refused, Patterson himself resigned, and was hired as managing editor of the Washington Post, replacing Benjamin Bradlee, who became the Post's top editor when J. R. Wiggins was appointed U.N. delegate (see THE NATION). B.J. also got a job at the Washington Post. Back in Atlanta, Tarver put in his own man to run the editorial page: Reg Murphy, 34, a freelance writer who once served as the Constitution's political editor. Three years ago, he had resigned...