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This year the Social Democrats decided to ignore the unions and work out a compromise emergency bill with the Christian Democrats. Within weeks, the bipartisan effort was near success. Prospects looked so good, in fact, that the German Trade Union Federation came out sternly against the bill, and the 1,900,000-member Metal Workers Union called for protest demonstrations. Reluctant to risk the loss of those precious votes in next September's national election, the Socialists lamely backed down and announced they would not vote for the bill after...
...device against its traditional target, civil rights, was dealt a death blow by the urgency and overwhelming popularity of the issue, liberals found the procedure of invaluable use. A highly conservative measure directed against Supreme Court involvement in the reaportionment issue, the Dirksen-Mansfield amendment--note the participation of bipartisan leadership in this conservative measure--had been added as a rider to the foreign aid bill and seemed sure of passage. Since the House had already passed the much more extreme Tuck amendment virtually anything passed by the Senate would have become law. Yet, the amendment was defeated, miraculously...
...from rushing through a measure establishing a poll tax of, say, $15? To forestall that temptation, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy tacked onto the voting bill yet another amendment, outlawing poll taxes altogether in elections for state and local offices. The amendment drew the ardent support of a bipartisan group of Northern liberals led by the bill's floor leader, Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart. But when the bill was ready for the Senate floor, the anti-poll-tax proposal ran into the opposition of the very men most instrumental in drawing up the original voting...
...commuted the sentences of five condemned Negroes to 99 years. Abolition lost in Indiana this month only because the last-minute murder of three policemen persuaded the Governor to veto it. Last week it was being discussed by the legislatures in Illinois, Vermont and New York, where an influential bipartisan commission called execution "an act of supreme violence" and argued that New York can punish murder "without resort to barbarism of this kind...
Aimed at the Barricades. As Selma's angry impatience exploded, Lyndon Johnson realized that the time was ripe to go after the widest possible support for his bill. Key figures in the bipartisan drafting were Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Katzenbach. Each man set his own legal staff to work, writing drafts of the new bill, refining, plugging loopholes, setting new standards, comparing notes. At each stage Lyndon Johnson studied the proposals and made suggestions. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution already outlaws poll taxes in federal elections, and now Johnson wanted...