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...chosen to succeed Flemming is a onetime swimming coach at Howard University in Washington, D.C., who ran the Model Cities program in San Diego from 1972 to 1975 before becoming head of the local chapter of the National Urban League. Pendleton campaigned for Reagan last year, and though he promises to try to block any effort to soften the Voting Rights Act, he shares Reagan's opposition to busing and affirmative action-policies staunchly supported by the commission...
Pendleton claims that under his leadership the San Diego Urban League has created some 8,000 new jobs, arranged $24 million in business loans and boosted the chapter's land holdings from $218,000 to $3 million. Yet local blacks charge that Pendleton has ignored the league's traditional work in the social-service areas of education, housing and legal aid. Counters Pendleton: "The best social program I know...
...memories of Mahan and Heffelfinger, Booth and Wood, Frank and Struck--great names of ten or thirty years ago. But more than that, they come anxious to bask in the spirit and participate in the festivities of the occasion; to join with the two teams in writing a new chapter in the unique legend of this...
...Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) is nominally a political student organization but holds the same religious beliefs as the Unification Church, Anthony J. Guerra, president of a CARP chapter established three weeks ago at the Divinity School, said Monday...
...Guardian Angels patrol the subways and neighborhoods of 31 cities trying to deter violent crime through their presence rather than through force, Sliwa said. He opened a Boston chapter in May, and 45 Angels have already begun watching the local subways, wearing the distinctive red beret and t-shirt that Sliwa described as a "moving lollipop outfit...