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...Early reports indicate extensive and encouraging voluntary compliance with the new act," began U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. "Regrettably, however, such responsible compliance is neither uniform nor complete." With that, Katzenbach last week ordered federal voting examiners into five more "dead-end" counties in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi; in all, federal registrars were now at work in 14 Deep South counties that have failed to comply with the new Voting Rights Act. In three of the five new counties, more than 100% of all voting-age whites were on the voting rolls, while as few as 4.6% of the Negroes...
...time," they still waited. They had, after all, waited a long while for this moment. Their patience was rewarded. In four days, 41 federal registrars added 6,998 Negro voters to the rolls in counties where there had previously been only 3,857. Beamed U.S. Attorney General Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, 43, who played a central role in drafting the Voting Rights Act and was now direct ing the effort to make it work: "We're doing very well." Katzenbach had good reason to feel elated. Normally, congressional bills, like architects' blueprints, take a madden ingly long time...
...where Segregationist Boss Leander Perez has kept civil rights workers at a safe distance by converting a swampy, snake-infested onetime Spanish fort on the Mississippi River into a concentration camp in anticipation of "racial demonstrators." Said Katzenbach: "If you are going to send examiners into Louisiana and don't send them into Plaquemines, then they can say you haven't any guts." Same as Whites. In the nine gut counties he finally selected-four in Alabama, three in Louisiana, two in Mississippi-Katzenbach said, the percentage of eligible white citizens on the voting rolls ranges from...
...cash and turkeys, the poor have mounting legal problems of their own: they must cope with Government bureaucracies over everything from relief to housing. Indeed, many experts feel that lack of legal services for the poor is a major threat to law and order. "Too often," Attorney General Katzenbach told the Miami convention, "the poor man sees the law as something which garnishees his salary, which repossesses his refrigerator, which evicts him from his house, which cancels his welfare, which binds him to usury, or which deprives him of his liberty because he cannot afford bail. Small wonder then that...
Whatever the law should be, said Katzenbach, it is "particularly irrelevant" to fret because police questioning may bother the poor the most-"the simple fact is that poverty is often a breeding ground for criminal conduct, and that inevitably any code of procedure is likely to affect more poor people than rich people." Indeed, argued Katzenbach, more effective police procedure would benefit the poor, "for it is they who live in the high-crime areas." In short, criminal justice can go only so far in seeking social equality -a goal that courts alone cannot reach -and then it is time...