Word: mccarran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the McCarran-Walter Act) of 1952, the U.S. Attorney General has the power to decide whether Mandel is allowed into the country. His two earlier visits were authorized because the Justice Department decided that the political climate had mellowed since the act was passed. Now, apparently, Attorney General John Mitchell thinks that it has changed for the worse once again...
...Vassar. The reason: in 1968, Mandel deviated from his itinerary, which under the provisions of the act is forbidden. Mandel claims -and the State Department apparently agrees-that he was never fully briefed on the act's provisions. Recently, Mandel has made a careful study of the McCarran Act and claims that he is being discriminated against. The act applies to members of the Communist Party, and Mandel says: "I have never been a party member...
...social, intellectual and economic life. The nation's highly technical economy needs relatively few immigrant laborers; as rising unemployment indicates, there is not enough work for unskilled Americans. But with industry's chronic shortage of specialists, foreigners who have skills are in demand. The 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, which tied quotas to the national and racial elements already in the U.S., arbitrarily barred great numbers of blacks, Orientals and Southern Europeans, no matter what their skills. To right that inequity, and to satisfy the changing job needs of the economy, Congress in 1965 passed a law that...
...SACB has been largely inactive for the last five years, since the courts threw out most of the penalties which the McCarran Act holds for Communist organizations. But the "Dirksen Amendments" have given the Act a new set of teeth...
...petition says that the amendments have changed the purpose of the SACB. Instead of requiring Communist organizations to send the government a list of their members each year, as the McCarran Act did, the amendments empower the SACB to keep its own list, which will be open to the public. The petition says that the SCAB is no longer gathering information--it is now keeping a "blacklist...