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...that weakness in a bruising struggle over the Viet Nam plank in the party platform. McCarthy's supporters were in a feisty, uncompromising mood. They demanded a clause calling for an immediate bombing halt and inclusion of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front in a coali tion government even before elections were held. The Administration sought a more vaguely worded plank. As Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it, while testifying before the Platform Committee in Washington, the party should describe the overall U.S. objective as "an early but honorable peace that will enable the free peoples...
...will of the people to fight against the Communists," and last month was sentenced to five years in prison. Last week Dzu's lovely daughter Monique Dinh Dzu, 22, a teaching aide at U.C.L.A., arrived in Chicago with an appeal for the Democratic Convention to condemn that ac tion. In a press conference at Senator Eugene McCarthy's headquarters, she presented a petition urging the Democrats to write a platform plank demanding her father's release. First signer: Senator McCarthy...
...more fundamental, and Negroes are sicker than whites from womb to tomb-their infant-mortality rate is double that of whites. A child can learn little, even in a vastly improved school system, if he is suffering -as are many Negroes in both North and South-from borderline malnutri tion, iron deficiency and anemia, as well as assorted infectious and parasitic diseases...
...Brinkley are off the air, their show abruptly shelved. Lawrence Spivak, Mike Wallace and Curt Gowdy are fired outright. Edwin Newman is still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week...
Manning was the keynote speaker at an impressive four-day gathering of law yers and informed laymen last week at the University of Chicago's Center for Continuing Education. Held under the auspices of the American Bar Associa tion and the American Assembly,*the meeting, titled "Law and the Changing Society," brought together Southern practitioners, Midwestern judges, Western prosecutors, Wall Street senior partners, law professors and law students, and such outside observers as Author Martin Mayer (The Lawyers). Dean Manning's job was to start a self-critical fire under the conferees...