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Also appearing before the subcommittee, which is chaired by Sen. James O. Eastland (D.Miss.). will be David Landau, an activist who has been involved with the Old Mole and the Boston Draft Resistance Group (BORG...
...approximately $3.8 billion annually. For the first time Congress placed a limit, $55,000, on the amount of subsidy that a farmer may receive per crop. But that ceiling affects only about 1,100 of the nation's 3,000,000 farmers -among them, Senator James O. Eastland, who collected $146,792 during 1969 for his cotton plantation in Sunflower County, Miss. Still, there are several loopholes in the new rules through which big farmers can escape financial loss. It will, in fact, be difficult to end farm subsidies, not only because of the farm vote, but also because...
Despite some restraints instituted in recent years, chairmen on many committees still control the agenda and can bring up a bill at their own convenience. In some committees a chairman can refuse to bring up a bill altogether. Mississippi's James Eastland, 66, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one of the most notorious racists in the upper body, has often ignored and sometimes killed civil rights bills by that method. Through similar control of procedures, Wilbur Mills, the Representative of a rural Arkansas constituency, has as much as or more power than the President in determining changes...
...ranking member) from that party's three most senior members on a committee. Even such a limited change might have dramatic impact. Thus Stuart Symington, a Viet Nam dove, could be chosen to replace the hawkish John Stennis as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and James Eastland could be bumped for Sam Ervin Jr., a scholarly constitutionalist, as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Obviously, the system would not always benefit one faction; it could work to advance conservatives as well as liberals...
...organization that does. Still another would make it a federal crime to kill a policeman, fireman or judge if the object was to attack a "symbol of the Establishment." Among the key sponsors of the anti-terrorism bills are South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond and Mississippi Democrat James Eastland...