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...This is not an attempt to initiate a witch-hunt," Rep. Joseph M. Kearney (D.-Mattapan) averred yesterday as he testified in favor of a bill that would set up a conmmission to investigate "overt encouragement of civil disobedience by instructors at the University of Massa chusetts at Boston...
Kearney and Rep. John F. Melia (D.-Brighton) drew up the bill after last Oct. 16th's rally at the Arlington Street Church in which 280 draft cards were burned or turned in. Melia claimed yesterday that he decided to sponsor the bill when an irate parent complained that his daughter's professor had offered to excuse from classes any student who wished to participate in the demonstration...
...Johnson, announced his resignation from ADA after the meeting, and some labor union representatives also were reportedly threatening to resign. Galbraith said that he hoped the union would stay. There are at present eight unions affiliated with ADA, which was founded in 1948 by then Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) and other liberals and labor leaders...
...cause of the current imbroglio is politics: Congressional and Presidential. Last March, the Marshall Commission recommended a random-selection draft system, as did President Johnson four days later in the Selective Service legislation he sent to Congress. Senator Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was initially opposed to the measure, but Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) convinced him of its merits. The bill the Senate passed allowed the President to institute a lottery on his own initiative without consulting Congress...
...House, Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and F. Edward Hebert (D-La.), the committee's senior Democratic member, were opposed from the start and held fast. It is common knowledge in Washington that both men bitterly dislike Defense Secretary McNamara and were loath to support any reform so close to his heart. Despite their opposition, the House bill was only slightly more restrictive than the Senate's, providing for Presidential institution of a lottery only after a 60-day notice period during which Congress could act to veto...