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Established by Congress in 1957, a six-man Civil Rights Commission*has been in and out of the headlines since it conducted hard-hitting investigations in both North and South of violations of U.S. constitutional rights. This week, as Congress debated extending its life, the commission submitted a report that made it as hot an issue as civil rights itself. Chief finding: the nation is still a long way from doing right by its minorities...
...strong new federal action. Items: ¶ A federal law requiring states to preserve registration records for five years, during which they would be subject to public inspection; states have a right to determine voting qualifications, the report said, but the right "is not unlimited."¶ An amendment to the Civil Rights Act forbidding any election official to discriminate by failure to carry out a public duty, e.g., resigning from office to avoid accepting registrations, and a recommendation that would empower the commission to apply directly to federal courts for aid in enforcing subpoenas, rather than going through the Attorney General...
...half of the 19th century, Czarist armies finally conquered the region and called all of it Turkestan. Until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, local emirs continued to rule, and Mohammedanism was not interfered with. Rebelling against the feudal lords, Moslem intellectuals helped the Reds win control in a savage civil war that lasted until 1924. After it was over, Stalin set to work with calculated savagery to Russianize and communize the area. Tribal groups were broken up and nomads forced into collectives. In ten years, uncounted millions died from starvation or were killed. Then the Soviets turned to extirpating Moslem...
Last week in Munich, legal experts of 27 nations, gathered by the U.N.-sponsored International Civil Aviation Organization, were writing an authoritative law of the air. Basically, the new code's most important provision would give priority of jurisdiction to the country in which the aircraft was registered, though under certain conditions the nation in whose airspace the crime was committed might claim the right to prosecute. The new law would also give pilots authority equivalent to that of ships' captains on the high seas. They could seize and hold suspects in the air and, when necessary, deputize...
...jack. To be located in The Bronx and shaped like the U.S., Freedomland will cram the kiddies full of "Little Old New York" (1750-1850 style), San Francisco at the time of the Barbary Coast (with earthquake), Florida bayous (with alligators), Mississippi stern-wheelers, New England whalers, and a Civil War battle (with neither side winning and no one offended). "Cape Canaveral" will even boast a man-carrying space ship. Said Manhattan's Board of Education President Charles Silver in splendid non sequitur, as the bulldozers prepared to break ground last week: "I have a feeling that history teachers...