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...fitting question, considering the spectacular fall that Congressman Powell had taken earlier in the week. By an overwhelming majority of nearly 3 to 1, rebellious House members overrode their leaders, scrapped the recommendations of a select committee and voted to exclude Powell from the 90th Congress for his well-documented wrongdoings. The vote reflected not only their sentiment but the nation's as well...
...House's decision to exclude Powell ignored the compelling argument for seating him: Powell fulfills the Constitutional qualifications for a place in Congress. Certainly the Harlem minister abused many of the prerequisites of his office, yet the recommendations of the select committee that were voted down would have served to punish his financial chicanery as well as removing him from the center of power he often used for purely personal advantage...
Talk was strong on Capitol Hill, too. Wisconsin's Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson deplored "an alarming trend in this country toward the use of police-state tactics." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy introduced a resolution asking for a "select committee" to probe CIA. McCarthy's proposal drew support from Nelson and William Fulbright, but at week's end congressional leaders turned thumbs down on a probe, arguing that there was enough surveillance of CIA by Administration watchdogs and oversight committees in both houses...
...signatories of the pact the cooperation of the nuclear powers in such peaceful activities as canal blasting or mountain removal, and extends security guarantees to the non-nuclear powers. It also argues that NATO does not violate the non-proliferation concept by allowing non-nuclear allies to help select targets and asserts that if Europe united politically it would be entitled to its own nuclear strike force...
...proposal would let all students in the top quarter of their class bid for an organization of their choice, which could be either honorary or non-honorary. Each organization would then select some, but not all, of its members from among these applicants -- leaving the room open for students below the top quarter to compete for membership...