Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David H. Abramson '65, chairman of the Eliot House Committee, said he had only received one complaint so far, and that the committee is not planning any action. He did not rule out the possibility of taking steps if more complaints are received, however...
Another amendment, offered by Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, also seems to offer no serious threat to the House bill. Sen. Saltonstall proposes to give more opportunity for voluntary compliance with the provisions of the public accommodations title before the Attorney General files suit on complaints. The measure sets a 90-day waiting period between the time the complaint is filed and a suit can be brought. The House bill only requests a "reasonable" period of time...
...fair employment title either improve or at least do not detract from the House bill, one may spark a difficult struggle. Sen. Dirksen intends to ask that the burden of prosecuting violations under the title be put on individuals and state agencies rather than on the Federal government. A complaint would have to be made first to the state agency, which would be allowed 90 days to act. Only then could the proposed Federal Commission be brought into the case; if it were not able to end the alleged discrimination by persuasion, then the individual, not the commission, would...
...fundamental Chinese complaint--that Soviet aid was dispensed only for Soviet advantages--should evoke a certain wry sympathy from the West. It is ironic that this country, having spent 15 years warning revolutionaries that alliance with Russia could lead to subordination to Russian intent, has all but cut itself off from communication with the one nation that has come, by historical experience, to agree. Now the U.S. press uncritically reproduces Mikhail Suslov's rejoinder: "The Chinese leaders do all they can to smear the economic assistance which the USSR and other Socialist countries render to the less-developed countries...
...pockets. The only sour note comes from Australia's coal industry, which is afraid that oil and gas would steal its market for generating power. Plentiful petroleum, warns Australian Coal Association Chairman Sir Edward E. Warren, could "destroy the indigenous coal industry on which whole communities depend." The complaint puts some politicians in the unusual position of refereeing a fight between coal and oil before an oil industry even exists...