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Repeatedly, Carter showed a sentimental streak and a moral blindness in assessing what his friend had done. The man who had campaigned against influential "big shots" and promised to appoint only top aides who met a Caesar's-wife standard of honesty could not bring himself to criticize one who had obviously fallen short of that ideal. Said Carter, ignoring much evidence: "Nothing that I have heard or read has shaken my belief in Bert's ability or his integrity...
...organized labor to win its way with the Carter Administration or the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, despite its heavy campaign support of both. A conservative mood in Washington and the efforts of a newly vigorous business lobby have offset AFL-CIO influence. Big Labor failed to persuade Carter to appoint many of its favorites to high Administration posts. The AFL-CIO also suffered a painful defeat when Congress rejected the common-situs picketing bill. Labor leaders blamed the common-situs loss on their own failure to realize how hard a lobbying effort would be needed. They had no such excuse last...
Since the resignations, the University has provided no further financial data to the directors, nor has it offered any proposals regarding the board's composition, other than the plan to appoint faculty- and members of the administration to the board. This plan was a major factor in precipitating the resignations...
...student proposal that the Faculty appoint a special student-faculty committee on women's studies, endorsed in a petition by 1164 students last spring, was the center of discussion in the Faculty Council's first meeting of the year yesterday...
...letter, the women's group asks the Faculty to appoint a special committee to investigate both the neglect of women's studies at Harvard to date, and to start developing a new degree-granting women's studies concentration...