Word: congressmen
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...Violent Coordinating Committee will not recruit volunteers for a Mississippi summer project unless Negro leaders of each locality specifically request them, officials revealed yesterday. Instead, SNCC plans to recruit 2000 students to work in Washington, aiding the Mississippi Democratic Party's attempt to unseat the state's five congressmen...
...Zeliner insisted that ousting the Mississippi congressmen was :not a wild dream." "We are fighting to win," she said...
...MFDP is charging that the election of the Mississippi congressmen last November is legal because large numbers of Negroes were denied the opportunity to register and vote. The House voted 276-149 to allow the five Mississippi representatives to take their seats while the congressional challenge is pending...
Delano himself has found public service "tremendously self fulfilling." He has watched the Peace Corps grow from a "Second Children's Crusade," as it was called by some Congressmen in 1960, to a force of 14000 volunteers spanning every continent. He has been a part of that growth, and he is proud of the achievement; but he entertains no illusions about the problems that remain. "We need more people with special skills in fields like engineering, chemistry and geology. We need doctors and agricultural experts--farmers who can talk to farmers." The Corps must find qualified applicants in greater quantity...
...installation shutdown until at least June 30. Appearing before the conferees were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman and VA Administrator William Driver, just completing his first week on the job. Freeman agreed to delaying the shutdown, signed a letter to that effect. Driver also indicated-or at least so the Congressmen thought-that he would go along...