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Mississippi's Attorney General Joe Patterson seems not to have been listening. Last week Patterson, who will be up for re-election in 1967, went right ahead with a last-ditch legal fight against the voting law that seemed to be more a campaign gesture than anything else. Filing bills of complaint in chancery courts of four Mississippi counties now under federal registration supervision, he asked for injunctions permitting local officials to reject any voters-federally registered or not-who did not comply with state registration laws. Those laws, which were overwhelmingly approved in a statewide referendum this summer...
...their troops and civil servants. Other pressure came from Navy Commodore Francisco Rivera Caminero, leader of the armed forces, who warned Imbert to give in or be forced out. Even then, Imbert kept insisting that the proposed settlement was too favorable to the leftist rebels. In a last-ditch flurry, the loyalists one night last week lobbed mortar shells into the rebel zone, touching off a two-hour exchange that left six dead...
...hourly $4.40 in wages and fringe benefits currently earned by the average mill hand. The industry, which started out by offering half the amount sought by the U.S.W., last week came up to some 13? an hour in what Chief Management Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, 62, called "a last-ditch effort to avoid a steel strike." At the same time, Cooper, an executive vice president of U.S. Steel, insisted: "This...
...last-ditch effort aimed at getting help from federal authorities and dramatizing their plight even further, the residents announced that they were renting a bus to send a delegation today to confer with Robert Weaver, head of the federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, and other officials who might be able to help. And who was helping to set things up on the Washington end but another prime contender for the Saltonstall seat - Salty himself. "He's been really wonderful on this thing," says Goldin, "very helpful all along...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority Monday captured a major fortified citadel that had been occupied by North Harvard urban renewal opponents but only after last-ditch resistance erupted into a bitter melee in which 12 people were arrested for trespassing...