BUSH DEFIES JUDGE, PICKS FRIEND FOR POSTAL BOARD

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, January 9, 1993                   TAG: 9301090224
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: METRO  
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
BUSH DEFIES JUDGE, PICKS FRIEND FOR POSTAL BOARD
President Bush defied a federal judge's injunction Friday and named a lifelong friend to the Postal Service's board of governors in a fight over who has authority to set mail rates.
Bush used a so-called recess appointment while Congress is not in session to put Thomas Ludlow Ashley, a former Democratic congressman from Ohio and a lobbyist for the nation's largest banks, on the 11-member Postal Service Board.
Six members of the board, engaged in a legal battle with Bush over a proposed 27-cent stamp for mass, machine-prepared mail, won a court order Thursday barring Bush from firing them.
But one of the six is Crocker Nevin, whose term expired last month and whom Bush replaced Friday with Ashley. - Associated Press

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB