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...draft, legislation to prevent a repetition of the incident. The Rules Committee has already demonstrated its reluctance to pass legislation controlling the business affairs of members of Congress. Only if the public makes evident a wish that such measures as the Case-Neuberger bill pass will Congress conceivably enact them...
...medical care for the aged, or on several other important administration programs; now it seems likely that civil rights, as well, will not be voted upon. In fact Congress will have a difficult time simply passing the appropriations bills or the other necessary housekeeping measures it must enact annually. The performance of the first session of the 88th Congress to date is one of the best arguments ever for immediate and effective Congressional reform...
...reasons for not wanting to alienate LAMCO. Partly in anticipation of rich revenues from the consortium, President Tubman and his ministers went on a spending and building spree that landed Liberia in bad financial straits last spring. Tubman, 68, had to promise the International Monetary Fund that Liberia would enact fiscal reforms in return for an IMF loan to tide the country over until its profits from LAMCO begin to build up in six or seven years...
...will take considerable courage for the President to give civil rights top priority on his legislative agenda. But delays in appropriation measures and even political risks should be accepted in order to enact the rights bill. The measure deals with some of the most basic aspects of men's lives--education, employment, voting and access to public accommodations. True, Southern obstructionism and court procedures will delay the bill's becoming fully effective, but the sooner Congress passes it the sooner its effects will be felt...
...Thus even if the Council's claim that we are a discriminatory group (in a morally and institutionally reprehensible sense of the word) were true or proveable, the Council is still not right to reject our application by taking for granted a law or rule which has not been enacted by the Faculty committee or the University. In saying this, we are assuming that the actions of the Council in such matters are not utterly random or unprincipled, but are supposed to be based on the laws and regulations of the University. Our association, of course, recognizes the power...