Word: antiriot
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...Gotta Move, Man." Simultaneously, the Republican Coordinating Committee rushed into the act. Twenty-six members of the 36-man policymaking panel had been at work on a riot paper, drafted by two-time G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, Florida Representative William Cramer (author of the House-passed antiriot bill) and Colorado Governor John Love. Accusing Lyndon Johnson of a good share of responsibility for the state of anarchy that prevailed in the nation's riot-torn cities, it also hinted that a conspiracy was behind the disorder...
...civil rights bills. A $40 million program to help local communities exterminate rats-a serious problem in the slums-was pigeonholed in the House amid some hilarity (Iowa Republican H. R. Gross wanted to know if there would be a high commissioner for rats). At the same time, an antiriot act that would impose up to five years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine on anyone who crosses state lines with the object of stirring up trouble zipped through the House by a 347-to-70 vote. "This bill," protested New York's Emanuel Celler, "will not allay...
Such moderation is characteristic of the Negro press, which takes a dim view of Black Power hotheads. For the Negro press addresses itself to the Negro community as a whole, which is overwhelmingly antiriot. Along with their coverage of issues like housing, jobs and schools, the Negro papers report in conscientious detail the everyday undramatic events of community life-giving the publications a reassuring kind of small-town solidity...
...moderate civil rights leaders think the antiriot bill is likely to deepen pessimism among Negroes. "Too many people," said Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at its annual meeting in Boston last week, "want to make the Negro 'behave' but do not want to give him justice. They think that riot prevention consists of crackdown laws and crackdown police...
Wilkins made a plea for no more riots. Our group cannot make solid progress cs a result of the actions of a riotous few," he said. But he also warned Congress which is now considering an "antiriot" bill that "riot prevention consists of crackdown laws and crackdown police...