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...Hugh Scott, a longtime civil rights advocate with a liberal Pennsylvania constituency, found the President's proposal unacceptable. So did Michigan's Philip Hart, chief Democratic sponsor of recent civil rights measures. Joining them were eight members of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. Resentful over Chairman James Eastland's action in reporting out the Nixon bill without a committee vote, they issued a 28-page position paper supporting an alternative bill. The substitute abolishes both literacy tests and residency requirements for federal elections, as Nixon had requested. But it also extends the 1965 act for five years...
Land owning has been a particular problem for the Delta blacks. In Sunflower County-where the biggest land-owner is Sen. James Eastland (D.Miss.)-only 71 of the county's 31,000 blacks own any land...
...bitch." In Fayette, Miss., black Mayor Charles Evers found uses for the new adversity. "Black people can fight better when they are pressured. We're on our way still. We're going to keep moving. We're not going back. Brother Nixon, Brother Mitchell, Brother Eastland, Brother Stennis-not one of them is going to stop us now." The rural Southern black especially feels that whites have always had the best schools; the only way for a black to get a decent education is to get inside a white school...
...nothing else, Burger's appointment should act to quiet the more strident critics. Southerners like James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will be less likely to claim, as he once did, that the court is "the greatest single threat to our Constitution." Even Eastland might find it hard to reverse his judgment of last week, which called Burger "an outstanding jurist and a very fine...
...cost about $500 million a year, money largely ill-spent. Also due for pruning is the farm bloc's annual harvest of $3.5 billion in subsidies, two-thirds of which goes to farmers with incomes of more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically, the Agriculture Department is also spending millions to improve big-scale Southern commercial farms, thus driving Negro farm laborers out of jobs...