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...addition, some Congressmen, particularly Southern Democrats representing textile-producing areas, got their ears burned when they went home during the August recess. In Sycamore, Ala., Congressman William Nichols convened a gathering in the spinning room of a closed mill. A constituent who said he was a Korean War veteran complained, "I had no way of knowing that when I put my life on the line back then, I would be fighting for a country that was going to put me out of a job." He was referring to heavy textile imports from South Korea...
...blueprint. A herd of 300 firms submitted initial applications, but SDIO narrowed the field to five, each of which will receive a $5 million grant to work on its designs. They include three major defense contractors --Rockwell, TRW and Martin Marietta--and two small electronics companies, Sparta of Huntsville, Ala., and Science Applications of La Jolla, Calif. Though their current grants are small, these firms expect to be out front if the big money starts to flow. Says Rockwell President Donald Beall: "Getting in early can give you a big leg up. Latecomers will have to play catch...
...rights establishment with indictments in Alabama against eight political activists for voter fraud in primary elections last fall, charging that the accused used the names of incapacitated and illiterate nursing- home patients on absentee ballots. Although three of the defendants have already been acquitted, the black mayor of Union, Ala., went on trial last week in Birmingham. The anger in Alabama's black belt is palpable. Randall Williams, a director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, contends that whites who commit voter fraud go unprosecuted. Says he: "This is clearly a one-sided investigation...
...Ranger in I Corps. "I have mixed feelings about it all," says Corkan. He does not have nightmares anymore, but sometimes in the deep of night, he blurts out in his sleep, "Who's on guard?" Sitting in the George N. Meredith V.F.W. Post 924 in Anniston, Ala., Corkan says slowly, "I don't know. Viet Nam just stays on your mind...
...Martin Luther King Jr. had targeted Selma, Ala., for a voter- registration drive. Although the city had 15,100 black residents, its voting rolls were 99% white. Dallas County Sheriff James Clark and his deputies arrested some 2,000 blacks trying to register, many merely for entering the whites-only front door of the courthouse. King on March 5, 1965, asked his followers to march 54 miles from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery to dramatize the injustice. "I can't promise that you won't get beaten," he warned. "But we must stand up for what is right...