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As Administration proposals also wind through the Congress, the legal situation would remain confused. But already it was clear, protested Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, that even the mild Scott-Mansfield amendment "serves public notice that we have given up the struggle to end discrimination." Ribicoff's own proposal has...
Outside the Senate, other voices were being raised against the antibusing trend. United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock charged that Senators, Congressmen and even those "in more exalted political office" (meaning Nixon) were using the busing issue to "polarize races in the hope of selfish political gain." New York'...
For a time, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson had the Democratic right to himself, talking defense up and radicals down, backing Nixon on Viet Nam and antibusing. Then along came George Wallace to steal his constituency and any chance Scoop had of taking Florida. Now Jackson is concentrating on Tennessee, and plans...
FLORIDA, MARCH 14. All the chief Democratic contenders meet head-on in this primary, but the voters could not seem to care less. The candidates do not excite them. What does excite them is the statewide referendum on busing. As the most outspoken antibusing candidate, Wallace is considered to be...
HENRY JACKSON. Stolid, square, unexciting but commonsensical, he is trying to appeal to the old-fashioned instincts of the average voter. But this campaign style has the drawback of not sufficiently dramatizing the candidate. Jackson can still walk down a main street in Florida without being recognized; his crowds tend...