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...extent to which the Bakke decision will affect thousands of affirmative-action programs in business, education and government. "Everybody is holding their breath. Courts and defendants are trying to do as little as possible until they see what the Bakke decision will say," says one lawyer. Notes Joseph Rauh, a leading civil rights attorney in Washington: "I don't blame the courts. They don't want to rule one way today and be reversed by the Supreme Court next month...
Joseph L. Rauh Jr., civil rights lawyer and longtime advocate of busing: "We're in a period of retreat on school integration, and this is the first major advance. It's a lighthouse for those who still feel they want more integration instead of less. It says you can't just leave all white in one place and all black in another...
...only serious controversy revolved around the nomination of Carter's fellow Georgian and longtime friend, Federal Judge Griffin Bell, to be Attorney General. The N.A.A.C.P., the Congressional Black Caucus and some liberal Democrats all assailed Bell. Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged that Bell had given "aid and comfort to segregationists" while an Atlanta attorney, chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver and a member of the federal bench. Black Caucus Chairman Parren Mitchell accused Bell of being "the mastermind of Georgia's massive resistance" to school desegregation when...
...summons to power. Nowhere are nerves more frazzled than at top law firms, where Republicans leaving Government service will be recruited (or welcomed back) to fill the slots of Democrats who will be packing for Washington. Even those who are not tapped may find their positions altered. Says Joseph Rauh, a liberal Democrat who went to Washington in 1935 and stayed (he is now a civil rights lawyer): "When they deal with the new Administration, the big firms will put their Democrats up front instead of their Republicans. Especially their good Southern Democrats. Especially their good Georgia Democrats, if they...
...climb in the Consumer Price Index. Also, though Sadlowski's grassroots, "Hi ya, buddy" style is appealing to rank and filers, he is not well known outside his district. Some Steelworkers familiar with Sadlowski are suspicious of his friendships with such men as liberal Washington Attorney Joseph Rauh and former J.F.K.-L.B.J. Speechwriter Richard Goodwin. McBride, who went into the mills at 14, and has made a name for himself as an organizer, accuses Sadlowski of neglecting his organizing duties as head of District 31. Sadlowski supporters concede that their man has not accomplished as much as he might...