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Platitudinous Drivel. The mood of the delegates, white and black alike, was as militant as the resolutions. After the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey, told the delegates that "there was no room for discrimination" in the house of God, the Rev. Channing Phillips, a black United Church of Christ minister from Washington, snapped: "The same old platitudinous drivel." Explaining her own dismay with such pat pleas for racial justice, a delegate from Ceylon said: "We have had enough of singing as the missionaries taught us to sing, 'Red and yellow, black and white,/All are equal...
...year long." The Review chided the Tribune for assailing all the "anonymous statements" in the Walker Report, then quoting "unimpeachable" (but anonymous) sources and "men of unquestioned integrity" as the basis for its own story claiming that the report had been rewritten under the direction of former Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
...Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General, will speak on the "Quest for Equal Rights" in the Dunster House dining room at 8:15 p.m. tonight. This is the third Atherton Lecture...
...smoothest confirmation hearing concerned John Mitchell, Nixon's former law partner and now his Attorney General. The 55-year-old bond expert told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would use electronic devices for "national security and against organized crime." Ramsey Clark, Mitchell's predecessor, had brusquely refused to obey a congressional directive to use wiretapping. Asked if he would mix politics with his work at the Justice Department, Mitchell answered that the 1968 campaign was "my first entry into politics, and I trust it will be my last...
...related services. Mitchell's personal views and record in this field are invisible. If he is going to come anywhere near to fulfilling Nixon's rhetoric, the Justice Department will have to adopt more of a police approach, with less emphasis on civil liberties than existed under Ramsey Clark and Nicholas Katzenbach. Mitchell is likely to employ wiretapping against organized crime. His department will draw up new legislation providing federal help for local police services...