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...SURE there needs to be a civil rights lobby. The struggle for civil rights has been won under the law," Clarence A. Pendleton asserts...
...current composition of the eight-member Commission--half of whose members were appointed by Reagan--puts it in a precarious position and, more importantly, threatens to undermine its ability to attack civil rights violations. Pendleton readily admits to sharing a political ideology with President Reagan. Indeed, he sees his role as one of reaffirming the Reagan platform. Says Pendleton, "Reagan was elected because he promised civil rights for all Americans, not just traditionally ditreminited regarding success...
...commissioners, Mary France Berry and Blandina Cardness Ramises-both of whom congress blocked Reagan from firing last October-have publicly lambassed for his ties with the Administration. "I am not sure what the relationship is, but the Chairman [Pendleton] mentions Ed Meese's name in every other sentence," Commissioner Ramirez, a three-year veteran on the board, charges...
...reversal of the Commission's traditional stand on these issues could not have been more complete. Ramirez, who, with Berry, clashed consistently with Pendleton in the two-day meeting, says she discerned a clear pattern in the voting. First, the majority of the commissioners seek to protect Reagan from criticism they "rush to support the Administration without sufficient study and deliberation," Ramirez says. The previous Commission has been unabashed critical of the President. But perhaps the most devasting of the body's tendencies--certainly for women and minorities--is its condemnation of affirmative action as adversely affecting whites...
...past eight years. Cao Duc Thi, 45, an engineer, left Saigon with $40 on April 29,1975, the day before the Viet Cong tanks rolled in. He and a majority of his compatriots live in Westminster (pop. 75,000), a neat desert suburb in Orange County near Camp Pendleton, where many of the refugees spent their first days...