Civil Rights Staff Director Quits
United Press International
WASHINGTON —
The combative staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, J. Al Latham Jr., resigned today to return to private law practice, complaining that Congress has “hobbled” the conservative-led panel with budgetary restrictions.
Latham, a Reagan appointee, was staff director of the commission for 10 months, during which the controversial panel lurched from one crisis to the next in a battle with Congress, the Government Accounting Office and its own minority liberal faction.
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