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Army intelligence agents have spied on Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson IH, former Gov. Otto Kerner and about 800 other civilians in Illinois alone, Sen, Sam J. Ervin Jr. said yesterday in Washington...
Aside from Stevenson and Kerner, Ervin said, the Illinois target list of the 113th Military Intelligence Group-with jurisdiction over the Midwest-included Democratic Rep. Abner Mikva and a host of state and local officials, political contributors, newspaper reporters, lawyers and church figures...
...real economic issues, the Democratic coalition can survive racial friction, but party leaders will have to acquire a mighty empathy for their working-class white constituents. In the last decade the Democrats callously shoved the burden of the black social revolution onto this much maligned class, which the Kerner Commission deigned to call racist. The federal government could have shifted the burden a little by creating more low and middle income housing for blacks and whites outside the existing corporate boundaries in the wealthier suburbs. (The suburbs vote Republican.) Instead, the Democrats permitted race to poison the party and leave...
There is law aplenty on the books, including court decisions, federal and state fair-housing regulations and numerous local codes. Yet millions remain confined in ghettos. As the Kerner Commission pointed out, the suburbs often form a white noose around the black inner city. The fact that industrial and service jobs are increasing in the suburbs, not the cities, worsens the ghetto prisoners' plight...
Since the Kerner Commission published its disturbing report on race relations two years ago, the news media have stepped up their reporting of minority concerns. But an imbalance in coverage persists. Some black leaders argue that white prejudices and ordinary inertia lie at the core of the problem. Perhaps, but there is also a logistical hurdle: most newspaper and broadcast editors contend that they lack sufficient manpower to cover the spreading ghettos in any depth...