Mississippi Negroes sue to force draft board representation
Mississippi Negroes led by Charles Evers filed a federal class action in U S District Court seeking a mandatory injunction against Gov. John Bell Williams to appoint Negroes to draft boards. They demand boards reflect Negro population percentages and protest all white boards. Evers said Negro families are tired of all white draft boards sending youths to Vietnam.
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Jackson, Miss
John Bell Williams
Charles Evers
U.S. District Cowry
Fendant Williams
Joval and Appeal Board
Selective Service System
Mississippi
Evers
Vietnam
Senate Probing Slum Credit and Riot Losses
Senate banking subcommittee to study credit abuses in ghettos and high prices that keep residents from affordable goods. Proxmire cites ghetto purchases for major items costing 60 percent more. calls for direct consumer credit to allow shopping at lower priced stores. Stark cites $19 million insured losses in D C after riots. noted Watts rebuilding lag three years after the 1965 riot.
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UPI
Senate
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Proxmire
Martin Luther King Jr
Melvin L. Stark
The
American Insurance Association
Stark
Senate District of Columbia
Court limits government employee free speech in Meehan ruling
The U S Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that government workers may be dismissed for speech that creates chaotic conditions, as in the Meehan case involving a Pattama Canal Zone policeman discharged after circulating a temperate poem mocking the canal governor. The decision directs Civil Service review on other charges. It signals potential impact on employee petitions against the Vietnam War.
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U.S. Court of Appeals
Richard D. Meehan
Pattama Canal Zone
Meehan
Canal Zone
Harald Leventhal
Henry W. Edgerton
Leventhal
Civil Service Commission
Vietnam
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