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Teele said he had received seven letters critical of the Coop's plans, including one from Hans F. Loeser, a lawyer who served as President of the Cambridge Civic Association from 1958 to 1960. Loeser wrote that he had "not personally investigated the facts" but was relying on the accuracy of information supplied by Dietz...
...CORE group has demanded a concrete plan from the city to end de facto segregation in the school system and job discrimination at construction sites. They have asked city support of a rent strike in the Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant ghettos and the creation of a committee of civic leaders to investigate charges of police brutality...
...land better-paying summer and term-time jobs, particularly to help increase their savings for college, according to Jon W. Clifton '63, who is helping to organize TEST. Eventually, the project hopes to include aiding high-school drop-outs, he added. Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, originally suggested establishing TEST, and has been important in the early stages of organization...
...Milwaukee and elsewhere, Wallace's reception was less than exuberant. In Oshkosh he was greeted by a jeering band of 400 college students. He endured rough questioning at a meeting with 17 Protestant clergymen. An overflow crowd of 2,000 curiosity-seekers jammed the civic auditorium to hear him preach against the civil rights bill-and to raise placards reading "Go Home, Bigot" and "Keep Your Dogs in Birmingham...
Lurking Fear. The civic-action program to date has cost a half-million piasters ($70,000), big money by Vietnamese standards. But Phumy is far from secure. In the sun-baked flats and clumps of jungle outside the main towns, the Viet Cong still control 70% of the province. In Phumy and elsewhere, the Reds have their agents. Soldiers with fixed bayonets guard the new water wells to keep them from being poisoned. For all their appreciation, Phumy's citizens remain understandably timorous; they remember what the Viet Cong warned on pulling out: that "when we return" villagers would...