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Unlike Sanders, Carter appointed blacks to posts at every level of state government. (Sanders today concedes: "Carter is far more liberal than I ever was.") He set up a biracial "disorder unit" of various experts to mediate clashes between blacks and whites. Since Georgia did not have federal referees to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Carter deputized all the high school principals in the state as registrars so that they could sign up voters at school. He overhauled the state prison and mental hospitals, which contained a high proportion of blacks. He set up a system of drug...
...Harvard may not go down as easily as the biblical giant. While Medical area workers demonstrate in the freezing cold outside Mass hall--"We're a separate unit, so let's get to it!"--Daniel Steiner, the University's general counsel, sits inside coordinating Harvard's predictably airtight legal defense. As workmen paste up a billboard near the Medical Area calling on President Bok to relent, Thomas L.P. O'Donnell, a Ropes and Gray labor lawyer whom Ed Powers, director of employee relations, calls "one of the best in the business" is drafting briefs that will certainly give District...
POWERS SAYS the University is pursuing a valuable institutional objective by attempting to force clerical and technical employees in the Med area to seek membership in a larger, university-wide bargaining unit. "If we don't achieve central unionization under a centralized personnel policy," he explains, "then we won't be able to avoid deficits, or to operate at all effectively...
...irrelevant, was one factor which he acknowledged might have weighed in the union's favor. Extra-university funding sources and separate day-to-day direction of operation were viewed as key factors in the Washington board's decision. The Harvard Medical area and those Columbia research facilities granted unit status seem to share these factors in common, despite vehement denials from Harvard, and even a statement by Powers that the Columbia decision is so different from the Fuchs decision that it in fact strengthens the University's position. Fuchs, too, denies the relevance of these criteria, and instead bases...
THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL goal, as Bell makes clear in his book, is the separation of the capitalist system of production, which the group thoroughly endorses, from the liberal theory of politics and economics--a theory which postulates absolute freedom and the pursuit of each individual "unit's" self-interest. In America no legitimate conservative theory has historically been able to accept one without the other. But Bell, particularly, locates the nation's present malaise--lack of faith in government, a sense of social purposelessness and even economic crisis--in a contradiction between the self-suppression of the individual in efficient work...