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Civil rights office called inefficient Unfilled top post seen as weakness
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The Boston Globe
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December 26, 1993
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WASHINGTON -- The lack of a civil rights chief at the Justice
Department, 11 months after President Clinton took office, has
hampered efforts to fight discrimination against women and minorities
during the administration's first year, civil rights leaders say.
Officials at the department, from Attorney General Janet Reno on
down, contend they have been able to compensate for the White House's
failure to fill the post of assistant attorney general for civil
rights.
Reno and Associate Attorney General Webster L. Hubbell have
assumed some responsibilities of the civil rights chief.
And they say the acting civil rights chief, James P. Turner, has
welcomed Clinton and Reno's determination ...