Word: shantytowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shantytown...
...site of the shantytown to be constructed here by the marchers has not yet been announced, and the government may not be informed of SCLC's decision on this until the arrival of the first group of marchers on Sunday. Details of the expected civil disobedience campaign in the federal area have also not yet been revealed...
Widespred speculation that the marchers would attempt to erect their shantytown on the Mall in front of the Capitol has preoccupied many Washington officials this week. Congressman William C. Kramer (R-Fla.), the author of the anti-riot provision of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, is pushing a bill to bar the marchers from erecting their shacks anywhere near the complex of federal buildings surrounding the Mail...
...critical question is whether or not the marchers will observe such restrictions as this one once they arrivein Washington. If the marchers' leadership should decide to build their shantytown on the Mall, even if denied a permit to do so, then the Government would have to decide whether to use force on the marchers. And if such a decision is not forced upon the Government over the campsite issue, it may still come at any time afterward, over the non-violent civil disobedience which Abernathy has forecast for the Campaign...
...Loan who cracked down on the Buddhists during last spring's riots in Hué and Danang. He has taken over control of Saigon's sloppy port security, sharply reducing theft and graft, is currently using his National Police to clean up An Khanh, a shantytown across the Saigon River that seethes with smugglers and bandits. Southerners accuse him of building a police state. "Hell, no," he says. "We don't even have enough gasoline to keep our Jeeps on 24-hour patrol...