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...year-old civil rights leader denounced U.S. Civil Rights Commission Chairman Clarence Pendleton Jr. for accusing him and other civil rights leaders of fostering divisiveness through "racial politics...
...controversial Pendleton has drawn fire from minority leaders for his opposition to affirmative action quotas and other civil rights initiatives...
Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., the controversial chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, angered black leaders last summer when he gently chided President Reagan for catering too much to minorities. Now, in a speech delivered to an Akron business group, he has accused Democratic Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson, former National Urban League President Vernon Jordan and N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks of encouraging blacks to vote for the losing party, thus leading them into a "political Jonestown." "No more Kool-Aid," said Pendleton, who is black, referring to the cyanide-laced drink that killed the Rev. Jim Jones...
Black liberals were put out by Pendleton's attack. Said Hooks: "The black community has heard the conservative gospel and rejected it." Pendleton also drew fire from Republican Francis Guess, a commission member and Tennessee's commissioner of labor. "The Jonestown analogy was disgusting." said Guess. "And I would be surprised if the President would applaud...
...Technology: "A threat to the soundness of our private banking system is an economic nightmare." So far this year, 71 banks have collapsed, compared with 48 in all of 1983 and only ten in 1981. The latest failure was the First American Banking Co. (assets: $22.7 million) of Pendleton, Ore., whose office reopened last week as a branch of a competitor from a neighboring town. Government regulators have put more than 800 of the 15,000 U.S. banks on their "problem list." Officials keep the names on the list a secret to avoid alarming depositors and aggravating the situation...