Civil rights activist first black in Carter Cabinet

Press, 18 December 1976, Page 1

Civil rights activist first black in Carter Cabinet

NZPA-Reuter Plains (Georgia) The Cabinet of Mr Jimmy Carter, the United States President-elect, will include the first black American Ambassador to the United Nations and a National Security Adviser who doubts that America is getting as much from detente as the Soviet Union.

Mr Carter has appointed a Georgia Congressman, Mr Andrew Young, Ambassador to the United Nations, the first Cabinetlevel black in the Administration he will lead on January 20. He named Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish-bom Soviet affairs expert at Columbia University, as White House security adviser and the former Budget Director, Mr Charles Schultze, as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors,

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brought to seven the number of high Administration jobs filled so far by Mr Carter, who has been having some trouble persuading blacks and women to join his team. At least three other prominent blacks and one woman have turned down job offers from Mr Carter. Mr Carter owes one of his biggest political debts to Mr Young, who is 44.

A member of Mr Carter’s inner circle of advisers, Mr Young toured the country winning support for the Carter candidacy among black voters. Handsome and elegant, Mr Young was the first black to be elected to Congress from the South since Reconstruction days after the Civil War. It was as a fighter for black civil rights that Mr Young first came into the public eye. Professor Brzezinski, who is 48, has a long back-

ground in international affairs both in government and academic circles. His academic life includes teaching and research at Harvard, where he was a colleague of the present Secretary of State (Dr Henry Kissinger) and at Columbia University.

Mr Brzezinski, the son of a pre-war Polish diplomat, has long been an advocate of detente with the Soviet Union, asserting that Washington should take the lead in this.

Mr Brzezinski supported United States policy in Vietnam in the 19605, apparently impressing President Johnson, and he was appointed a member of the policy planning staff at the State Department in 1966, a post he held for two years. Considered a specialist on communism, Mr Brzezinski holds that much of the unrest in the United States has been a reaction to change from an indus-

trial society to a technological society. This unrest will also occur in other advanced countries in both East and West Europe and Japan, he feels.

Mr Schultze, who is 52, is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland where he earned his Ph.D. in 1960 and a senior fellow at the prestigious Brookings Institution, a liberal research organisation.

He has been in the forefront of activist economists who would apply the tools of economic analysis to social problems such as developing alternate sources of energy and pollution control.

On the latter subject he has recommended that rather than passing laws forcing corporations to meet certain standards, the Government simply levy a tax on polluters to give them an economic incenttive to clean up.

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