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Sharkey, Jacqueline | June 13, 1994 issue

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Only a handful of President Bill Clinton's nominations requiring Senate confirmation have been women or men of the left. Two of those with histories in the progressive movements of the 1960s and 1970s are Sam Brown and Derek Shearer, appointed ambassadors, respectively, to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and to Finland. Both appointments were fervently opposed by the usual right-wing watchdogs. And after long delays, only Shearer has been approved; Brown is stuck in Senate filibuster limbo. The Brown debate became another exercise in Vietnam revisionism, with Republicans charging that the nominee-a leader of the antiwar mobilization and the Eugene McCarthy presidential campaigns.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; REPUBLICANISM; PRESIDENTS -- United States; MCCARTHY, Eugene; EUROPE; FINLAND; UNITED States
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