Word: fall
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...bill. The word came from Charles Overby, a Washington correspondent for the Jackson, Miss., Daily News, who until last month was an assistant to Stennis. Overby reported that the Senator had sent a letter to the Administration during the August congressional recess. Stennis reportedly wrote that with the upcoming fall desegregation of schools, he thought he should be in Mississippi for a while...
...message to Nixon was clear. If Stennis stayed home, leadership for the military-appropriations bill would fall to Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington -an outspoken military critic. According to Overby, the Administration then ordered a delay of Mississippi school integration-and Stennis returned to shepherd the appropriations bill through. At week's end, neither Stennis nor the Administration had denied the report...
...Middle East conflict will figure in scheduled debates on two subjects this fall: the condition of Palestinian refugees, who have been U.N. wards since 1948, and Arab claims of human-rights violations in Israeli-occupied territories. Other debates certain to engage the Assembly's time and temper include the protection of civil rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and restrictions on chemical and germ warfare. There is every prospect that the U.N. will formally decide to enter the pollution-control field by setting up the first worldwide governmental conference on the protection of the environment...
...pull anywhere from 39% to 46% of the vote, v. 40% to 44% for the Christian Democrats. The fading Free Democrats will probably draw less than the 9.5% that they polled in 1965, while the ultra-rightist National Democrats (see following story) may draw 5%. The Communists will undoubtedly fall short of the 5% necessary for a party to win representation in the Bundestag. Key to all speculation is the size of the undecided vote-and it may be as high...
...wake of student unrest, a key issue on U.S. campuses this fall is how the universities can achieve more effective democratic "governance." Last week two of the nation's leading universities announced plans for reform...