"A Long Way from Tokenism"
Bush is appointing a surprising number of blacks to top posts
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As an antitrust lawyer, Charles A. James chose a profession where African Americans like himself are hardly in abundance. So when he recently caught a movie called AntiTrust, he took particular note of a character played by Richard Roundtree. "I assumed," James says with a wry smile, "he must have been playing me."
Soon James will enter another sphere not normally known for its ethnic diversity--a Republican Administration. The 46-year-old Washington law partner, known for his faith in free markets and his weakness for German sports cars, has been tapped to run the Antitrust Div. in President George W. Bush's Justice Dept.