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Wanted: Wilbur Mills. The arrests were made when more than 200 demonstrators marched to the Hill to demand that Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills and his potent House Ways and Means Committee repeal recent amendments limiting eligibility for the Aid for Dependent Children program. Mills has supplanted Lyndon Johnson as the pet hate of Negro militants-they plan to put up "Wanted" posters throughout the city, charging the Congressman with "conspiracy against children." Mills refused to see a delegation of the protesters. "I don't convene the committee on anyone's demands, not even the President...
...need a court order in emergency situations involving national security or organized crime. The legislators also authorized a ban on the mail-order sale of handguns, as well as $100 million in federal funds for local law enforcement. And, as many civil libertarians feared, the Senators voted to repeal some Supreme Court rulings they considered were hampering the police...
...favor came with enough strings tied around it to make U.S. acceptance dubious. The offer is conditional upon U.S. abstention from any new restrictions on imports or subsidies for exports. And several of the 16 countries insist that Congress must also repeal the so-called American Selling Price system for fixing tariffs on such items as benzenoid chemicals, sneakers, canned clams and woolen knit gloves...
Because FHA and VA loans carry a 6% interest ceiling (which the Johnson Administration has asked a reluctant Congress to repeal), almost all private lending institutions are willing to make them only at a big discount-that is to pay out about $9,200 for a mortgage with a face amount of $10,000. This has the effect of raising the return closer to 7%-a cost which homebuilders pass along to buyers disguised as a higher price for their homes. In a time of rising interest rates, when lending institutions demand increasing discounts, Fannie Mae faces a dilemma...
...hear some papers complain, the American Bar Association's new guidelines on press coverage of criminal cases will repeal the First Amendment and return the Inquisition. Some lawyers have cited the rules in attempts to get trials closed to reporters. Exasperated, the author of the guidelines, Massachusetts Judge Paul Reardon, has advised everyone to calm down...