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This year's proposed law would also authorize the U.S. Attorney General to take independent legal action to force desegregation of schools and other public facilities without waiting, as he must now, to receive a formal complaint. The measure would also institute procedures for eliminating racial discrimination in federal...
In fact, the issues, circumstances and personalities could all change beyond recognition by 1972. It is even conceivable that by then both factions may decide that a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket is preferable to another Humphrey-Kennedy duel. And if Humphrey should succeed to the White House between elections, as eight...
* Congress should move to integrate the all-white jury system of Southern states. First, it should establish uniform jury standards for both federal and state courts. (Again, the Fourteenth Amendment would empower Washington to legislate for state courts.) Since age and residence are now sufficient qualifications for voting, it would...
Second, Congress should empower the federal government to seek an injunction against any official who discriminates in the summoning or selection of jurors. The one existing law against jury discrimination is an 1875 criminal statute which allows the offending official to be tried by a Southern jury and specifies that...
The problem lay in the Royal Commission. Smith insisted its only job was to determine whether or not the Rhodesian people wanted independence on the basis of their present constitution, which effectively blocks the way to majority rule by the colony's 4,000,000 b'acks. Wilson...