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Friday, April 8, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Meese nominee criticized
Meese n Private club memberships in question
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — John C. Shepherd, recommended by Attorney General Edwin Meele III to fill the No.2 post at the Justice Department, is a member of an all-male athletic club and an all-white country club in the St. Louis area, the clubs said yesterday.
Shepherd's membership in the Missouri Athletic Club, which has no female members, and the Bellerine Country Club, which has no blacks,
drew criticism from Patricia Ireland, executive vice president of the National Organization for Women.
"It makes it hard to imagine he'll be able to administer justice in government in a way that's non-discriminatory when in his own personal life, he doesn't live up to that," she said.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who would have to vote to confirm Shepherd to the post, were more circumstance, saying through their staffs that it is too soon to comment because Shepherd has not yet been nominated. He is undergoing FBI background checks.
White House spokesman Leslie Arsht said yesterday that the clearance process was proceeding on Shepherd. She declined further comment.
could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press. But he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wednesday that he would no longer either should resign from the clubs.
Shepherd, 62, a St. Louis attorney.
"I haven't made up my mind on whether that would be necessary," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "I am going to Washington for nine months to help the attorney general as his deputy."
Shepherd said he had told Meese and other Justice Department officials about his club memberships in Washington earlier this week.
Shepherd, in the same interview, said he was confident that he would be cleared by the FBI of allegations that he had had an affair with a former bookkeeper at his firm and that he had authorized her to write $147,000 in checks to herself.
WASHINGTON — Illinois Sen. Paul Simon suspended his stalled presidential campaign yesterday but held onto his 170 delegates in hopes of influencing the choice of a nominee at the Democratic national convention in July. Jesse Jackson immediately blasted Simon for keeping the delegates, saying most of them were rightfully his.
In a quasi-withdrawal, Simon said that he would no longer actively campaign for the nomination but that he technically would remain a candidate, even though he had no illusions that the nomination would come his way.
"In a year that has already seen many surprises, no one knows what twists and turns may develop between now and then," Simon said at a news conference. "There will be many encounters with fate before the contest is ultimately decided in a wide-open convention."
The Associated Press
Simon quits but keeps delegates
Jackson, however, said that Simon's move was a less-than-honorable one and that he ought to release his delegates.
"If one is not in the race, one ought to indicate a form of honorable withdrawal at which time whoever got second place in that state will get those delegates. The only way to do this is by making the first and the last thing to do." Jackson said in New York.
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Rep. Richard Gephardt dropped out of the Democratic race last month.
"I would hope that in time, Mr. Simon likewise, now that he has made the decision to leave the race, will leave so honorably," Jackson said.
Simon showed early strength in the Democratic campaign, finishing a close second in Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses. But he dropped to third in New Hampshire and failed to rebound as the primary season wore on, except for a lone victory in his home state. His bid bottomed out Tuesday in Wisconsin, where he finished last with just 5 percent of the vote.
He blamed his campaign's precipitous decline on a failure to effectively communicate his message of traditional Democratic party values and on a lack of money but said he did not see his failure as a rejection of those values.
Kansas University
Kansas University Music Therapy Student Association presents
Symposium 1988
Topic Issues: Terminally Ill Deaf-Blind Traumatic Head Injury Physically and Mentally Disabled
Date: Saturday, April 9, 1988
Time: 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Location: Pioneer Room — Burge Union
Admission: MTSA members — no charge
KU students — $4.00
Others — $6.00
Everyone is Welcome!
SUA FORUMS Presents
April 18 April 21
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office
All seats reserved/For reservations, call 913-8648-3982
8:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, 1988
Hoch Auditorium
Public: $14 & $12; KU and K-12 Students: $7 & $6; Senior Citizens
and Other Students: $13 & $11
Funded in part by the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts; additional funding provided by the KU Student Activity Fee, Swarthout Society, and the KU Endowment Association.
Graham Chapman Randy Shilts
For Hillel Students
Sunday, April 10, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Lawrence Jewish Community
Center
917 Highland Drive
For Reservations/More Info: Call Hillel 749-4242
Free Deli Dinner For Hillel Students
HALF PRICE FOR KU STUDENTS
Presented by The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Concert Series
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