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WHEN PRESIDENT CARTER appointed then Representative Andrew J. Young (D-Ga.) as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in December, many observers applauded the appointment--for the wrong reasons. On the domestic front, it was felt that a black of Young's intelligence, personal assurance and civil rights credentials filling a high-profile, cabinet-level post would boost American interest in and identification with the New Administration's initiatives, particularly in foreign affairs. Internationally, they hoped, Young would serve as a symbolic bridge between the Carter administration and the Third World, particularly Africa...
...cited the company 15 times since 1965 for violations of federal labor laws. Stevens has been forced to offer jobs back to 125 dismissed workers and give them and other employees $1.3 million in back pay and other compensation. The company closed one carpet-yarn mill in Statesboro, Ga., after a court ruling that management had to bargain in good faith with the union; Stevens says the mill was shut because demand for its product "declined drastically." In 1974 the union won an election at seven Stevens plants in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., but 2½ years later ACTWU officials still...
...fleet of nine newly constructed LNG ships owned by El Paso Natural Gas Co. will begin carrying gas from Arzew, Algeria, to Cove Point, Md., and Elba Island, Ga., early next year. That gas, for which El Paso signed a contract before the Arab oil embargo, will sell in the U.S. for about $1.25 per 1,000 cu. ft., v. a top federally controlled price of $1.44 for domestic gas shipped across state lines and $2 or more for uncontrolled intrastate gas. Algerian gas bought under a postembargo agreement, however, will cost Americans...
...fascist political organizations in the U.S. The National States Rights Party, Cowan's outfit, claims some 20,000 members in 100 or more chapters. Experts place its membership at only 1,000, though its hate sheet, Thunderbolt, apparently prints 15,000 copies each month. Based in Marietta, Ga., the party is headed by Lawyer J.B. Stoner, a longtime bigot given to saying things like "There's no point in our going out and shooting Jews and niggers because we couldn't get rid of them that way. It has to be a national program...
Pentagon supporters in the Congress wasted little time in launching a determined and vehement assault on the Warnke nomination, led by Senate hawks like Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) of the Armed Services Committee. Although the Pentagon camp has often distorted Warnke's views (as in the anonymous memorandum circulated earlier this month in the Senate), there are two clear positions at the heart of the disagreement. First, Warnke has questioned the utility of numerical military superiority in the nuclear age. While conceding that deterrence requires a perceivable ability to retaliate effectively in response...