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...Newest tenant of the Administration doghouse: General Arthur Trudeau, the Army's chief of research. . Last month Trudeau popped off about civilians who make military policy, was obliged to issue a public apology. Trudeau then circulated a memo, author undisclosed, which damned the U.S.'s "politically sterile" policies in the cold war, called for "developing a guerrilla warfare capability under U.S. sponsorship from refugees from Communist-dominated countries, including Cuba." The Pentagon's civilian chiefs have ordered Trudeau to keep quiet...
...Money. Ayub has pushed through a land reform program, redistributing some 23% of Pakistani farmland to onetime tenant farmers. Karachi's teeming refugee slums have been razed; some 100,000 refugees from the bloody division of Pakistan and India were relocated in plain but clean modern colonies. No longer is "tea money" necessary to get in to see a government official. Ayub has made Pakistan's government the least corrupt of any nation on the Asian continent...
...present proposal is accepted, it will serve as a pilot for an expanded program which might eventually include volunteer work in New York's Harlem, in Pueblo villages in New Mexico, and possibly with migrant laborers, tenant farmers, and share croppers...
There, on property donated by Negro Farmer Shepherd Towles, some 70 Negro tenant farmers and sharecroppers and their children last week were making their temporary homes in ten Army-surplus tents. They had been evicted by white landowners because, the whites insisted, there was no need for them after the recent cotton harvest, and besides, increased mechanization of the farms meant that fewer hands were necessary. But the Negroes felt that they had been evicted because they had registered and tried to vote in hard-boiled Fayette County...
...court ruling outlawing the all-white primary last spring, and began to register by the hundreds. White registrars offered no opposition, but soon the registered Negro businessmen and workers found that they were blacklisted. As the cotton harvest ended, the blacklisting spread to rural areas, and some Negro tenant farmers who had spent their lives on one piece of ground were ordered to move on. Last month the Justice Department moved into Fayette County and neighboring Haywood County, asked a federal court to enjoin white landlords pending a hearing based on the 1957 Civil Rights Act. The court refused...