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Evasion & Delay. Before the 14-hour session ended at 1:40 a.m.-with passage of the $3.4 billion authorization bill, 294 to 122-the Republican leadership suffered still further humiliation. Ford made a token effort to have the bill sent back to committee, only to see 46 Republicans desert him. On the final vote for passage, 99 defected...
...President Johnson had requested $662 million for his showcase exercise in creative federalism, which is aimed at encouraging cities to draw up their own plans for the rehabilitation of neighborhoods. The Appropriations Committee excised nearly two-thirds, leaving only $237 million. A motion to eliminate all funds except a token $12 million for planning was narrowly defeated...
...rocket attacks were launched in the middle of the night against two U.S. airbases near Saigon, Bien Hoa and Phuoc Vinh. From Bien Hoa fly half the fighter-bomber strikes that originate in South Viet Nam, and the Viet Cong attack was undoubtedly a token riposte for U.S. bombing of MIG bases in the north. Some 125 rounds of the Russianmade rocket, 82-mm. mortar and 75-mm. recoilless-rifle fire raked Bien Hoa, killing six Americans and wounding 85. The 15-minute attack destroyed four planes and damaged 25, also damaged runways, barracks and equipment. Phuoc Vinh was attacked...
...Supreme Court declared that Southern schools should be desegregated with "deliberate speed." During the nine years that followed they weren't. Negro parents who wanted to send their children to previously all-white schools almost invariably met resistance from local school officials. Even token desegregation required long, laborious court suits...
...Administration has so far shied away from an ardent defense of the guidelines, and has instead made token efforts to placate the Southerners. It has transferred authority for enforcement of the guidelines from the office of Education Commissioner Harold Howe to the office of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare John Gardner. And Gardner has announced that compliance with the guidelines will be supervised by Southerners rather than the Northerners that local school officials found intolerably conscientious...