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...save some of the cold-struck. In New York City, John Bohlman, 90, and his wife Rose, 86, had plenty of heating oil in their furnace. But the fuel pump broke; the couple, both deaf mutes, were unable to signal neighbors for help and froze to death. Near Pendleton, S.C., Margaret Swaney's new wood-stocked heater malfunctioned and started a fire; her three teen-age children were killed. Herbert Ahlstedt, 54, of Level Plains, Ala., was knocked unconscious by falling, ice-heavy tree limbs. Face down in the snow, he froze and died...
...turned out to be an especially unflinching warrior in the struggle for civil rights. In recent months, after having concluded that Reagan and company lacked commitment to the cause, he began attacking the Administration. Last week he found himself out of a job. Nominated as his successor: Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., 51, a black Republican, president of the Urban League of San Diego and a friend of White House Counsellor Edwin Meese...
...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...
...White House strongly defended its selection of Pendleton. Though Deputy White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes praised Flemming as a "distinguished public servant," he added that the President simply wanted "his own appointee in the post." Some civil rights leaders admit that though they may differ with Pendleton's conservative views, he is a proven administrator capable of running the agency. Nonetheless, some of Pendleton's new colleagues, three of them Democrats, are uneasy. "Most of us assume that we will be fired too," says one present commissioner. "To have an Administration tamper with the makeup...