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...purges at the Civil Rights Commission brought charges that Reagan was stacking the panel with his own people. Indeed the six-member commission, including its Reagan-appointed chairman, Clarence Pendleton Jr., a former president of the Urban League of San Diego, has publicly questioned the President's civil rights enforcement record. Anticipating that Congress would soon give the commissioners fixed instead of open terms, effectively freezing them in place for the rest of Reagan's presidency, the White House decided to act. "We wanted our own people," acknowledged White House Counsellor Ed Meese. The nominees, like the commissioners...
...room full of cokeheads, bristling with that hard, artificial arrogance, can be an unsettling place. "With cocaine," says Vertell Pendleton, a Chicago drug-abuse counselor and former user, "you're indestructible, perfect, the giant of your dreams." Donald, 42, a Philadelphia-born investment banker, lost his job, squandered his inheritance, and developed a hole in the septum of his nose. Nevertheless, he says, "I felt powerful, in control. Cocaine is ego food. It feeds the ego like nothing I've ever seen in my life." Tony, the owner of a Denver tire-repair shop, used four grams a day. Says...
...Parker's Lincoln Institute for Research and Education in Washington. They have also established the New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, a 300-member, California-based group of inteLlectuaLs, businessmen and politicians closely linked to the conservative Heritage Foundation. Says New Coalition's president Clarence Pendleton, who is also chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: "What we're trying to relay to both blacks and whites is that there is a lot that blacks can do for themselves...
...than exciting, but it has a serviceable tonal score and a singable libretto. Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms, though wordy, is an intriguing, often hilarious parable about the hazards of fame in the TV age, with excellent performances by Robert Drivas, Patricia Kilgarriff and Wyman Pendleton. Williams' A House Not Meant to Stand lacks focus, particularly in the second act, but it is probably the best thing the playwright has written since Small Craft Warnings, a decade ago. It is inhabited by a rich collection of Williams' scarred characters; reworked, it might join...
Hart was backed for the job by, among others, Republican Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a Senator who is not known for his deep concern about blacks or civil rights. Explained E. Pendleton James, the White House director of personnel: "We wanted a representative of Moral Majority conservative blacks." Hart's approval by the Senate is now in doubt because of objections being raised by both Senators from his home state...