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...Administration's top civil rights troubleshooter, it fell to Bobby Kennedy to put the bill back on the track. Painfully aware that he would bring down the wrath of civil rights professionals, Bobby went to the Judiciary Committee to plead that the bill be diluted to passable proportions. He carefully avoided challenging Celler's bill on principle, skillfully confined himself to matters of language and legalisms. The new public accommodations section, he said, was "unclear," might extend federal regulation to "all businesses which a state does not affirmatively ban." He questioned the vast scope of powers granted...
...favor leaders of short stature and intense nature." Candidate Park criss crossed the country by limousine, chartered an airliner and private railroad car, occasionally made noises about greater independence from the U.S. He was ill at ease in civvies and proved a dull campaigner, once interrupted a speech to plead: "Please give me some applause so that I can take heart...
...Olympic Committee met in the West German resort of Baden-Baden last week to pick the site for the 1968 summer games, the French city of Lyon poured out the champagne and was full of effervescent expectations. Michigan's Governor George Romney flew over from the U.S. to plead Detroit's impressive case (its seventh attempt) with the help of a 37-minute movie including a special pitch by President Kennedy. Of the two Latin American contenders, Mexico and Argentina, the men from Buenos Aires gave it only a halfhearted...
...capital cases. Since then, the legislatures in Alabama and North Carolina have passed measures to provide counsel for lawyerless defendants in all felony cases. Mississippi courts have adopted a policy of appointing counsel for defendants charged with felonies, and South Carolina judges no longer permit defendants without counsel to plead guilty. In all four states, prisoners have petitioned for review of their cases...
Most important, Bosch proposed legislation to confiscate the property of ex-Trujillo scpporters. Under the new plan, old Trujillo landlords would have been forbidden to plead their cases in court. Although Bosch advisors privately considered the new laws unconstitutional, practical politics offered no alternative: the land holding elite controlled the courts and the courts were stalling land reform. Property owners immediately envisioned a rash of confiscations...