Word: sheriff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concern voiced by The Times--no matter how ill-placed, no matter how journalistically unsound--was evidenced in the confirmation hearings for William Lucas, President Bush's nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. A former sheriff, admittedly poorly-versed in social law, Lucas was denied approval for the post of assistant attorney general by the Senate Judiciary Committee. After the vote, conservative white senators accused their liberal counterparts of reverse racism for expecting a Black to be necessarily liberal and pro-affirmative action...
Imagine, however, a former white sheriff, responding to questions in front of the committee. When asked what this white lawyer thought of the recent Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action, he responds that he is not too familiar with most aspects of civil rights law. Would it be racism to deny his confirmation, or prudent sense...
...cassette, although the use of anonymity to protect the innocent raises the question Protect them against what? "Folks go out and leave their doors unlocked, park their vehicles and leave the keys in the ignition and know they'll still be there when they come back," says County Sheriff Jim Arnoldsen...
...Alton, Ill., told police there last April 29 that her second daughter, six-week-old Heather, had also been kidnaped by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying a gray revolver, she stretched credibility too far. Alton police contacted Jersey County Sheriff Frank Yocom, who had investigated Loralei's death, and he pronounced himself "flabbergasted -- I couldn't believe it had happened again...
Tipped off, federal agents taped the two men plotting the abduction. They were arrested in May and are due to be tried next month. County residents were shocked. Said a friend, Jane Lake: "It's hard to understand why drug dealers get protection and the sheriff gets arrested...