Bitter Senate Battle Seen Over Busing Issue
The Senate faces a likely bitter floor fight over anti busing measures tied to a 23 billion higher education bill and a 1.5 billion school desegregation fund. Southern Democrats plan to use the bill to press court ordered busing limits while some oppose any legislative ban.
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Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Hugh Scott
Claiborne Pell
D-R
Welfare ruling held invalid in Arkansas
A U S district court ruled a state welfare regulation invalid and unenforceable. The rule barred AFDC aid to children under 18 not in school, challenged by ACORN. The decision cited a Supreme Court ruling that states cannot tailor eligibility to exclude eligible youths.
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G. Thomas Fisele
U.S. District Court
Aid
Fisele
Arkansas Community Organizations For Reform Now
ACORN
State Department of Social and
Congress
Eisele
U.S. Supreme Court
Ilinois
State Social Services Board
Dalton Jennings
State Social Services
Deci
Sion
Jennings
Supreme Court
Arkansas Forecast Warmer With Scattered Showers Today
Experiment Station report shows 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Wednesday with high 46 and low 41 and a trace of precipitation. Forecast calls for cloudy to partly cloudy conditions in Arkansas and a warming trend through Thursday with widely scattered showers and thundershowers today, increasing tonight and Thursday. Highs today mid 50s to mid 60s, tonight lows 40s to 50s. Thursdays highs expected in the low 60s to low 70s.
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Arkansas
Senate Passes Equal Employment Bill Twice In Session
The Senate approved a bill enforcing the federal ban on employment discrimination, voting 73 to 16 and 72 to 17 in two sessions. The measure strengthens civil rights by expanding coverage to 15 or more employees and shifting enforcement to federal courts. A House delay and various amendments followed, including changes to EEOC powers and regional coverage. The proceedings also included local city bids and contracts unrelated to the federal bill.
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John Chadwick
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
James B. Allen
D-Ala
House
James L. Buckley
R-Con.n.y
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Labor fears Wallace in Florida in AP report
In Miami Beach labor leaders warn a George C Wallace Florida primary win could disrupt unions. AFL-CIO chief Meany calls Wallace a bigot and anti labor while labor strategists form a task force to oppose his March 14 Florida bid and other primaries. Wallace dismisses the criticism.
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Miami Beach
Organized
George C. Wallace
Florida
Alabama
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Wallace
al Barkan
Big Labor Federation
Barkan
Big Labor
Meany
Bumpers to campaign for Mills in New Hampshire
Gov. Dale Bumpers will speak in Sutton and Cavemont, New Hampshire on Friday for Rep. Wilbur Mills in the state’s March 7 presidential primary. Bumpers will travel after the National Governors Conference in Washington. The effort aims to counter Wallace and aid Nixon’s re election prospects. COPE plans labor focused literature and a union meeting film to urge votes against Wallace. James Kennedy leads the COPE task force.
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Dale Bumpers
New Hampshire
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Bumpers
Archie Schaffer
Sutton
N.H
Cavemont
Washington, D.C
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Barkan
Alabama
Wallace
Ters
COPE
James Kennedy
Purcell Considers 4th District Congressional Run
Purcell, Arkansas attorney general and Democratic party chair, weighs running for Congress in the 4th District though not a resident there. He cites regional ties, prior strong showing in the district, and potential development, but says he would resign as party chair if he pursued office. He notes residency should align with representation and recalls past deliberations in 1966.
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John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Nixon
McClellan
White House
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Mississippi
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Ozarks
Oklahoma
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Missouri
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Saline County
Benton
Wilbur D. Mills
Mills
David Pryor
John L McClellan
Ray Thornton
Richard S. Arnold
Texarkana
Jack Coleman
McGehee
Pryor
Dale Bumpers
Orval E. Faubus
Winthrop Rockefeller
Bumpers
Service Tradition Due for a Shakeup
Washington AP secretary of defense Melvin R. Laird envisions a new service partnership with the Air Force sharing carrier operations with the Navy. He notes plans to use F111 bombers for ship attacks and says sea patrols could be handled from land bases in locations like the Azores Newfoundland Iceland or Greenland.
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Melvin R. Laird
Air Force
Laird
Navy
Adm
Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr
Naval Operations
Azores
Newfoundland
Iceland
Greenland
Con
Gress
U.S
Mediterranean
Caribbean
North Sea
Dowdy of Texas Is Sentenced In Bribery Case
Rep. John V. Dowdy, D Texas, received 18 months in prison and a $25,000 fine in a bribery conspiracy conviction. Judge Roszel C. Thomson imposed the sentence after an eight week trial in U S District Court in Baltimore. Dowdy plans an appeal.
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Baltimore
John V. Dowdy
D-Tex
Roszel C. Thomson
U.S. District Court
Texas Democrat
Dowdy
Stephen Sachs
U.S
Justice Department
Maryland
Thomas J. Lane
D-Mass
Grand
Washington
Nathan H. Cohen
Monarch Construction Corp
Silver Spring
Cohen
Julius Levitt
Myrvin C. Clark
Monarch
Athens
Atlanta
Nixon Chou meet extends as press eyes stay
Nixon and Chou Enlai held a lengthy private session with officials noting the talks ran longer than expected. Chou suggested reporters could request stay permission from the Information Department, hinting some journalists might extend their China visit beyond the seven day limit.
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Nixon
Chou
U.S
Department of Information
Information Department
China
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