Black Manifesto and Forman Target Churches for Indemnity
The piece analyzes James Forman and the Black Manifesto calling for 500 million dollars for Negro uplift through a southern land bank, a black university, publishing houses, and media ventures. It warns of plans to seize church agencies, threaten white church establishments, and push a cooperative black capitalism opposed to individual wealth. It likens these aims to revolutionary efforts and cautions church leaders against consent and coercion.
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James Forman
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
St. George's Episcopal Church
New York City
Southern Land Bank
South
National Black Labor Strike Fund
United Black Appeal
United States
Africa
National Black Economic Development Conference
Black Anti-Defamation League
Forman
NBEDC
Inter
Nixon
Philospher
Soviet
Russia
America
San Francisco State President Hayakawa warns of militant recruitment
Hayakawa tells Senate investigators black students are being recruited as cannon fodder in a revolution planned by whites. He says blacks are under the gun in the suspected plot. Elsewhere Czech riders face thumbtacks along Eastern Europe’s major bike race route causing many flats and prompting questions about Moscow’s aims.
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San Francisco State College
Hayakawa
Senate
Europe
Russia
Pentagon waste report targets McNamara era arms programs
The Proxmire committee details billions wasted in defense spending under McNamara with costly missteps in programs like the TFX and CSA cargo plane. It blames inflated contractor profits, overruns, and poor procurement, urging stronger Nixon administration intervention. The piece notes McNamara's resignation in 1968 and questions the era's defense management.
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Washington
Proxmire Committee
Pentagon
Defense
Robert 5. McNamiara
Fiaina
CSA
Rockefeller Latin America tour sparks widespread protests
The Rockefeller trip to Latin America drew hostile receptions and violence at multiple stops, with Bolivia, Venezuela, and others canceling invitations. Caldera mobilized troops in Venezuela, and protests marred most visits as Rockefeller defended the mission as a fact finding effort. He plans to continue to Brazil on June 16.
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Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Latin America
Nixon Nixon
Rockefeller
Per
Venezuela
Bolivia
Rockefeler
Gov. Rockefeller Co
Caracas
Caldera
New York
Brazil
MaCLean Explain Food Stamp Grant Revisions
The speaker clarifies that Ayres error about a $17,000 Lake Charles food stamp grant is outdated. The approved funding totals $11,340 for stamps plus $2,000 for outreach, $200 for fringe benefits, $2,900 for medical expenses, $250 for staff travel, $180 for supplies, and $60 for equipment. Outreach aims to reach people in backwoods areas via a dedicated worker, with a budget not exceeding $400 monthly.
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Lake Charles
UFO
Eac
OEO
A Kennedy Who Makes Good Sense on Poverty and Policy
Washington notes say David Kennedy, secretary of the Treasury, favors gradual solutions over quick fixes by administration critics. He argues education and training for the marginal poor, housing through apprentice carpenters, and betterly focused aid programs to reduce inflation and ease poverty without promises of instant elimination. Kennedy also cautions against overhyped bows to war on poverty and stresses cabinet unity in presenting government policy.
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Kennedy
Justice Warren
Seerats
Opiniu
Ces
Ae Sat
Alliance For Progress
This Day In History Highlights
Key moments include 1920 when Warren G Harding was informed in a Chicago hotel he would be the dark horse Republican candidate 1927 Charles Lindbergh greeted at the White House after his solo transatlantic flight 1850 Ben Hogan wins a golf title after a severe auto crash 1963 National Guard deployed as George Wallace blocks enrollment at Alabama University Cervantes quotes a line on company and trees in a reflective thought.
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Warren Harding
Chicago
Charles Lindbergh
Welc
Calvin Coolidge
Atlantic
Paris
Ben Hagen
National Guard
George Wallace
University of Alabamy
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Ayres
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Onassis
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