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...Themselves. No one seemed certain just what Valachi's appearance before the committee might gain. Bobby spoke about new wiretap laws and extending immunity from prosecution for racketeers who cooperate with the Justice Department. McClellan said vaguely that he had in mind some kind of law to "prohibit membership in such a criminal and secret organization as Cosa Nostra." And Joe Valachi thought organized crime should probably be outlawed-largely because "the bosses been thinking only of themselves for years...
...House Rules Committee. But even in the Senate version, which barely passed, 47-44, the inclusion of the Thurmond amendment threatens the bill's efficacy. By making the Corps' activity contingent upon a governor's approval, the amendment needlessly injects the civil rights issue: it will, in effect, prohibit corpsmen from working with Southern Negroes. Inconsistent with a program aimed at aiding needy individuals, the amendment should be excluded from the House draft...
...present government, according to Reischauer. The result is a sort of utopian movement whose sole function is criticism, and which is separated from the mainstream of politics in Japan. The students are forced onto the political periphery not only by their class aloofness, but by stringent electioneering laws which prohibit them from ringing doorbells and participating in other such campaign activities, considered "dirty" in Japan...
...resolute Britons, rolling up sleeves against the dirty job ahead. This must have pleased Churchill mightily; in other times, he had been one of Low's particular targets. "You can't bridle the wild ass of the desert," said Churchill after one painful portrait, "still less prohibit its natural heehaw...
...another front, the Reds refused to let children at state-run summer camps attend Mass. Said Wyszynski: "The state does not have the right to prohibit everything. If a citizen does not demand his rights, he is no longer a citizen. He becomes a slave...