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...Justice Department did send representatives, not of its Civil Rights Division, but of its less effective Community Relations Service, to Byhalia last August. Boycott leaders claim that CRS agents harassed participants in the boycott, tried to discredit black leaders and even urged blacks to resume shopping in white-owned Byhalia stores. The leaders also charge that CRS men frequently slipped money to black winos and steered them in the direction of white-owned package stores. CRS agents deny that they harassed anyone or bribed, winos. In any case, the boycott shows no signs of losing steam. The FBI has found...
...Heywood Hale Broun, another visiting speaker, has been considered in "artist" for his transformation of the television medium into a literary art form. In his four and a half years of sports?ating on CRS, he has combined a journalistic flair with his dramatic background to emerge with legendary "wrap-ups" of sports information, delivered in a style of elevated pr??, almost poetic in their rhythm...
...millions a year. Largest of the religious agencies in scope of operation is Catholic Relief Services, a charity sponsored by the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy, which is funded through an annual collection taken up in every American parish and supplemented by a Thanksgiving Day clothing drive. Last year CRS dispatched cash and material gifts worth $11.5 million to South Viet Nam, where the agency supports such projects as 200 schools, 30 hospitals, 77 orphanages and ten old-folks homes. Operating independently of CRS is another Catholic organization, Caritas International, the Vatican's worldwide relief agency, which since...
Although undertaken in a spirit of Christian altruism, church-run relief services have not escaped criticism. Some American Catholic critics of the war were shocked to discover that CRS has for two years been helping distribute U.S. surplus food to families of South Viet Nam's 700,000-member local militia, at the request of General William Westmoreland. Defending the arrangement, CRS officials pointed out that the low-paid militiamen are often away on duty and unable to provide sufficiently for their families. Because of the well-established Roman Catholic structure in Viet Nam, CRS is able to ensure...
...neutral in their attitude toward the war and its outcome. "We are social workers and Christians and, as such, do not get involved in political questions," says Neil Brenden. "We're here to do a job." Adds Father Robert L. Charlebois of Gary, Ind., Viet Nam director of CRS: "We are here on the invitation of the government of Viet Nam to help needy people. We don't care how their need has arisen as long as they are truly in need...