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...Base and later at Fort Chaffee. Vernon Jordan is shot in May as well. In June science announces a breakthrough in recombinant DNA research, raising high hopes of cancer cures along with specters of genetic engineering and Andromeda strains. The prime lending rate at major banks soars to 21.5% in December, all but ensuring that 1981 will begin with a recession...
...Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, says that Pierce has "always cared about civil rights, and he's always been involved. It's reassuring that blacks are going to be involved in this Administration at the highest level." Adds William H. Oliver, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'S National Housing Corporation: "Just because a person didn't march in the South doesn't mean that he doesn't have personal dedication to civil rights...
...financial supermarket with thriving new lines of business in insurance, real estate and consumer lending. Having accomplished what he set out to do, Regan had begun to think of stepping down. Two years ago he and his wife Ann, who have four grown children, bought a house in Mount Vernon, Va., for their retirement...
...family is from the White Earth Chippewa reservation in Minnesota. Her father moved to Los Angeles during the Bureau of Indian Affairs assimilation and relocation program of the 1950s and 1960s, where he played Indians in Hollywood westerns and helped organize the early Indian rights movement. Her uncle, Vernon Bellecourt, co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) and was instrumental in the 1973 Indian occupation of South Dakota's Wounded Knee Hill...
...arrested in Lakeland, Fla. Authorities want to question him about a yearlong series of shootings-in Salt Lake City; Johnstown, PA,; Cincinnati; Indianapolis; Oklahoma and Fort Wayne, Ind.-which claimed the lives of eight black men and two white women and included the wounding of National Urban League President Vernon Jordan in May. All the attacks occured without warning, involved a high powered rifle, and, in four of the assaults the black victims were with white females...