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...GREAT DIVIDE: CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE BILL (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A special featuring interviews with Bobby Kennedy, Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, Senators Kuchel, Stennis and Dirksen, representatives of the N.A.A.C.P., CORE, the National Urban League...
Declared President Johnson last week: "We do not condone violence or taking the law into your own hands, or threatening the health or safety of our people." In a joint statement, Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey and Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel, leaders of the Senate drive to pass the civil rights bill, warned: "Civil wrongs do not bring civil rights. Civil disobedience does not bring equal protection under the laws." And national leaders of the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League, CORE and the National Council of Negro Women got together to urge "orderly, nonviolent demonstrations," and to condemn a tie-up this...
Anticipating the Worst. Following Humphrey was California's Senator Thomas Kuchel, the Republican whip, who also offered urgent arguments for the bill. "This issue," said Kuchel, "should not be a partisan fight. It should be, and is, an American fight." But some powerful Republicans do have doubts about certain parts of the bill, a fact attested next day by G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Dirksen said he had received "very substantial encouragement" from the Senate Republican Policy Committee for a dozen changes, most of them technical, in the bill's fair-employment and union-membership provisions. Dirksen...
...give Go-Day talks, New York's Rockefeller charged vigorously through a two-day visit to California with his wife Happy, now five months pregnant. Rocky's reception, from politicians, businessmen and Negro leaders, was surprisingly warm. Better yet, California's powerful vote-getting Senator Thomas Kuchel declared that he is "enthusiastically" for Rocky, is expected to head the Governor's delegate slate in the state's crucial June 2 presidential primary. Beamed Rocky: "All the elements are here for a real successful campaign." And no sooner had he left than Barry Goldwater announced plans...
...Playboy Antics." After whittling down the dollars, the Senators had some strong opinions on how the remaining money should be used. Minority Whip Tom Kuchel proposed that no funds should go to nations that try to assert exclusive fishing rights beyond the three-mile off-shore limit recognized by the U.S. "What has happened off the coast of South America is positively shocking," said Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, referring to harassment of U.S. fishermen by Ecuador, Chile and Peru. "It is time for the United States to crack down hard." The amendment carried...