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...When HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson told the delegates, "You may well ask 'Is anyone listening?''" a skeptical delegate brought down the house by answering: "Yeah, the FBI." Richardson promised to bring up this year's proposals at the "earliest" Cabinet meeting, but warned the delegates that not every recommendation could get action. Unwilling to leave follow-up efforts entirely to the White House staff, the delegates created their own group to issue public reports on results...
Yesterday afternoon, police arrested about 250 lobbyists organized by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. They had broken through a plywood wall erected by police Wednesday night to prevent them from entering the inner corridors of the HEW building...
They were arrested outside the HEW building for parading without a permit and arraigned last night in Washington Superior Court. No bail had been...
Yesterday's demonstration began when about 750 protesters-led by the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference-gathered outside the HEW building to demand a $6500 minimum annual income for the poor...
...demonstrators requested a meeting with HEW secretary Elliot L. Richardson '41. At 11:30 a.m., HEW officials admitted the demonstrators to an auditorium inside the HEW building, but Richardson did not appear...