New appointees are not so diverse, analysis shows
NATIONAL
VV ASH
I N (; T O N
(AP)
D e s p i t «
efforts to
create a
government that "looks like
America." President Bill Clin
ton's earliest appointments are
predominantly middle-aged and
male — and not much more
racially diverse than the Bush
administration, an Associated
Press analysis shows
To considerable fanfure. (din
ton appointed a broad mix of
men. women and minorities to
his Cabinet — the top 1H
appointees But his first wave of
sub-Cabinet and White Mouse
appointin'* is not so diverse In
fas t. thi' group as a wholu looks
quito a lot likti the president
A third are fellow Ivy League
graduates, and 36 percent are
fellow lawyers At least nine
share an even rarer academic
distinction with Clinton —
they're Rhodes scholars
()l the first 1" White House
staffers and sub-Cabinet
appointments announced so far
• Light-six pen ent are while,
I t percent are black, and just
one person is Asian-Amuru.au
Of the group. 4 percent are His
panic According to loot) Cen
sus figures, HO percent of Amer
icans are white.
•Nearly two-thirds are men
America’s population is split
evenly betwwm the sexes
•The average age of an
appointee ts 4 r» wars, to
months.
More than half of Clinton s
appointees so far, the Cabinet
included, are white men ;15 and
older.
The Clinton administration
record so far is only slightly
more diverse than his Kepuhli
i an predecessor. Neat the end of
the Hush administration, in Sep
tember 19H2. HT port ent of the
3.402 political appointees were
white and 6 peri out were blai k
the Offii » of Personnel Manage
men! said Pour pen ent were of
Hispanic heritage.
Experts search cavern
to find missing worker
NKVV YORK (AI ’) — Explosives experts inched deeper Into the
huge, bombed-out cavern under the World 1 rude Center on Sun
day. searching for a still-missing worker and more clues about the
explosion.
Riding on “spider scaffolding" — the kind of portable platform
used by high-rise window cleaners investigators worked their wav
dow n the sides of the cavern, diet king the jagged edges of blown-out
concrete floors for evidence
The investigators had yet to reach the sub-basement level where
much of the rubble collapsed after the bomb went off in an under
ground garage Keb. i!(>, killing five people
As investigators looked for i lues, police dogs sniffed through sub
terranean debris for a trace of missing building employee U dfrudo
Mercado, who is believed to have also died in the blast. Charles
Maikish. director of the center, said some reconstrui lion work had
been delayed "to put finality on that particular issue out of sensi
tivity to the family.”
So far only one man is accused in the bombing that roi ked the
Trade Center's 11(1 storv twin towers Mohammed Salameh. ~r>. was
arrested Thursday night and is lieing held without hail Investigators
say Salameh rented the van that held the bomb.
Chemicals and bomb parts found in a storage lot ker in New Jersey
were sent to Fort »ix. N I for study. hut federal bureau of Alt ohol.
Tobacco and Firearms spokesman John O Brien said ho didn t know
the results ol the tests
Bust lands
700 pounds
of cocaine
BURNS lAt*) I'hree
Californians were in jail
Sunday nfI**r authorities
made what lhf*y believe
was one ul tins largest drug
seizures in Oregon histo
ry.
An estimated 700
pounds nl i.o< nine wore
seized Kridav evening after
n rental van was stopped
for a routine traffii viola
tion on Highway U()
Authorities seart lied the
van and found eoiame
hidden in the vehu le s
wall panels
The < in ante lias an esti
mated street value of
between $10 million and
$15 million dollars,
authorities said
In September 1 **M. l»<> s>en i>n(
of tin* Reagan administration's
political appointees were
white .mil 5 percent were him k
lust J percent had Ihspunii roots
Clinton can fill about l.OOi)
|ohs through appointments Ihe
posts he has filled so far. how
ever, are the government s pri
tnarv powi*r broker* — (.abiiint
s«>t rotaries. their deputy and
assistant set return's, agency
administrators and While Mouse
deputies
During last year's < ampaign.
Clinton said he planned "to give
you an administration that looks
tike America "
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