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...surface, the issue now appears academic. Absent for two years and deprived of his seniority and committee chairmanship, Powell nonetheless was re-elected by his Harlem constituents and was admitted last January to the new Congress. There remained, however, the question of $55,000 in back pay for his uncompleted earlier term. On that hangs potentially one of the gravest clashes between two branches of Government in the nation's modern history...
...reason for the sudden decline in popularity is McGovern's chairmanship of a special commission investigating-and finding-abuses in the selection of convention delegates. Born of the Chicago convention's tumult and disillusionment, the commission was set up by the party leadership as a sop to the liberals. McGovern was named chairman as a compromise between extreme dissidents and regulars. But his way of running the commission has turned out to be almost as divisive as the convention itself and the Viet Nam issue...
...church and the world are filled with blatant institutional racism." They recommended economic sanctions against "corporations and institutions" that practice discrimination, and said that "guerrilla fighters struggling against racist regimes must be given the support of the church if all else has been seen to fail." Under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, a Methodist lay delegate, the conference added: "The church must," in certain circumstances, "support resistance movements, including revolutions, which are aimed at the elimination of political or economic tyranny that makes racism possible...
Freund added that he accepted this committee's chairmanship rather than a seat on the Committee of Fifteen because, when comparing the burdents, he found that it was "a much more limited assignment...
Last week he continued his guerrilla warfare by delaying senatorial consideration of William Brown, Richard Nixon's Republican nominee for the chairmanship of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While the holding action will not prevent Brown's eventual confirmation, it did embarrass Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen...