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...Scotch and Soda, Kingston Trio...
Whizzing through New England next day, the President touched on every issue that promises to figure heavily in the fall elections except inflation. At the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, where he picked up a Doctor of Civil Laws degree (his 32nd honorary degree), it was civil rights. Before the Navy League in Manchester, N.H., it was Viet Nam. The U.S. will stop bombing North Viet Nam, he said, if Hanoi quits sending troops south. But it is "the men in Hanoi," he added, "who hold the passkey to peace." At Battery Park in Burlington, Vt, with the crystal...
...projects occupied by Negroes leads many whites to believe that the arrival of a Negro family is the certain prelude to garbage in the streets, broken windows, cockroaches and rats-even though these conditions are unheard of in such carefully maintained middle-class Negro areas as Chicago's Kingston Green...
Eaten & Trampled. At Selassie's second stop, in Kingston, Jamaica, the airport was mobbed by 2,000 members of a minority Negro cult called the Rastafarians, who worship Selassie as God and want the Jamaican government to send them "home" to Ethiopia. Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante, 82, has discouraged such repatriation, saying wryly: "We must protect them. They would just get out there in the jungle and be trampled by elephants and eaten by the lions." Undiscouraged, the Rastas showed up at the airport waving placards reading "Hail to the Lord Anointed" and chanting "Selassie is Christ...
During his stay, Selassie met with the ailing Bustamante, who is almost blind from cataracts, received an LL.D. degree from Kingston's University of the West Indies and visited Montego Bay. In an address to the Jamaican Parliament in Gordon House, he vaguely held out the hint of aid. "We must expand material and other cooperation," he said. "We must remember that many states today representing major parts of the world were once weak, but through a process of assimilation and combination have become strong...