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Last week's White House conference on Negro problems was a year in gestation. Lyndon Johnson conceived it in a speech at Howard University last June, then appointed a 30-man council to bring it to life. An amalgam of civil rights leaders, businessmen, educators, labor-union representatives and public officials, the council dreamed up a 104-page report that seemed to ask for a pie in every sky. Specifically, it called for sterner enforcement of civil rights statutes, "guaranteed employment" for all able to work, and equalization throughout the country of per-pupil spending on public education while...
...central issue"? Said the report: "The national Government's response to the compelling cry of the Negro American for justice and true equality has not been matched by state and local government, by business and labor, the housing industry, educational institutions and the wide spectrum of voluntary organizations that, through united effort, have the power to improve our society...
...concentrated on opening up Asian virgin lands, Brezhnev and Kosygin plan to put the main emphasis on improving already cultivated areas west of the Urals. Brezhnev also put his prestige behind the most unusual departure in Soviet agriculture since the 1930s: a guaranteed wage for the kolkhozniks (collective farm laborers) that will make their income nearly equivalent to the earnings of factory workers. The move reflected the government's desire to make farm jobs attractive enough to lure and hold skilled labor, which tends to flock to cities...
Oratory Like Hitler's? So far, the Graham team has avoided the errors that marred the 1954 crusade, such as the promotional brochure that infuriated Labor Party leaders by declaring: "What Hitler's bombs could not do, socialism did." Billy now is on good terms with Prime Minister Wilson, but last week, without pinpointing the enemy specifically, he declared: "I feel greater opposition than ever before." The crusade has been ignored by both fundamentalists and progressive theologians; the Archbishop of York issued a lukewarm endorsement, while Canterbury made it publicly and pointedly clear that Billy did not have...
...structure of SDS at Harvard, although based upon theories of democratic decision-making, also indicates a reaction against the Stalinists of the 30's. The Harvard Chapter has no less than four co-chairmen. Separate committees study and act on Vietnam, Labor, Civil Rights, South Africa, and University Reform. The executive committee theoretically consists of only the chairmen of the various committees, but in practice, anyone may attend executive committee meetings...