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...candidates, Democrat Cliff Finch and Republican Gil Carmichael, are relative newcomers who rose by challenging the power of Senator James O. Eastland, the state's most potent pol. Lawyer Finch, a former state legislator from Batesville, a sleepy farm town, won the Democratic nomination by upsetting Eastland's candidate, Lieutenant Governor William Winter, with a record 58% of the vote in the August primary runoff; it was the first time that Eastland had backed a loser...
Such acceptance is a fragile thing, of course, easily swept away in the morning mists by the caprices of Arabs or Asians or even one of the Capitol Hill dragons, like Mississippi Senator James Eastland. But right now Ford has pre-empted Georgetown dinner talk, set covetous social climbers to plotting White House entries, and made Congressmen and influence peddlers worry about what is on his mind...
...bill passed the House in the past two Congresses but was stymied in the Senate by Judiciary Chairman James Eastland of Mississippi. He insisted on dropping any criminal penalties and on allowing alien farm workers to be admitted if domestic labor is in short supply. The INS, organized labor and the Justice Department have come out in support of the Rodino bill, and even Eastland says that "the prospects are good this year" for its passage...
...boycott in court. They brought a suit against the league, which they eventually lost in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Outside the courts, the league's leaders have been threatened and even shot at. The boycott's supporters think that Mississippi Senator James Eastland, powerful chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has intervened in the Byhalia situation. They insist that Eastland has pressured the Justice Department to try to break up the boycott...
...Edward Levi, president of the University of Chicago, has been proposed as Attorney General. The selection is under fire from Senator James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who considers him too liberal. Levi has not revealed whether he is indeed a Democrat...