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Equal Treatment. Mixed unions are hardly strange to Americans, going back to John Rolfe's marriage to Pocahontas in 1614. In the same era, colonial elders became so concerned about the number of marriages between white indentured women and Negroes that they began writing laws to prohibit them. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, son of a Negro mother and white father, who became the nation's Minister to Haiti in 1889, divorced a Negro and later married a white woman, explaining blithely that he "wanted to be fair to both races." Negro-white miscegenation, in fact, had a brief vogue...
...difficult for Africans to move about and organize a resistance to apartheid, but also to turn them into a migratory labor force. The laws make it impossible for a Black to bring his family into the city area, even if he has come to work there. They also prohibit the Africans from forming any trade unions...
Congress has failed to act on a number of reasonable Treasury recommendations: to prohibit buying and selling of securities between a foundation and the family which established it; to require foundations to use their income currently (the existing law only prohibits foundations from accumulating "unreasonable" amounts of income); to require family-foundations to have public trustees within 25 years. It is hard to imagine why Congress did not pass these measures--unless personal interests were involved...
Less than a week ago, the House passed, 347-70, and sent to the Senate, a bill to prohibit the use of interstate facilities with the intent to incite a riot. The author of the bill, William C. Cramer (R-Fla.), quoted officials in several riot-torn cities who claimed that outsiders were either involved or responsible for the violence. Cramer said his bill was "aimed at those professional agitators" who travel from city to city and "inflame the people to violence" and then leave before trouble begins. Rules Committee Chairman William M. Colmer (D-Miss.) added that the riots...
...annually in Britain in recent years, and the occasional publicized case has evoked more public sympathy for the defendant than support for the prosecution. In fact, the new bill really frees homosexuals from the fear of blackmail rather than from the threat of criminal indictment. The law will still prohibit solicitation, and it increases penalties for acts against minors. It prohibits homosexual brothels and pimping. The law brings Britain in line with most of Western Europe, where restrictions have been eased everywhere except in West Germany. In the U.S., only Illinois has a comparably liberal code...