Meredith races Powell
NEW YORK -(UPI) James H. Meredith, the civil rights movement's moody loner and the man chosen by Republicans to oppose Adam Clayton Powell, today was given little hope of beating the veteran Harlem Democrat in next month's special election.
A poll of the 18th Congressional District by the Opinion Research Corp. of Princeton, NJ.,
Meredith, the 33-year-old law student and Air Force veteran who in 1962 became the first Negro to be admitted to the University of Mississippi, was named late yesterday afternoon by local Republican leaders as their candidate in the April 11 election.
At the outset of his uphill campaign, there was an indication Meredith would employ the theme of "good versus evil" as a central issue in the race against the ousted congressman, Harlem's flamboyant preacher-politician for more than two decades.
Senate prodshouse action on ethics bill
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Sensators gave House members a prod toward reform today, forwarding for House approval a bill to reorganize Congress and create a new House Ethics Committee.
The Hous had it in mind anyway, but was still debating whether, instead, to turn over its ethical headaches to an existing housekeeping committee, which would get a new title and broader authority.
The reorganization bill passed the Senate yesterday 74 to 9 after almost a month of debate. It was designed to hire more committee experts, crack down on lobbyists, and give members a month's vacation each August.
Among scores of other changes. House committee hearings would be opened to radio and television broadcasts; members would get an extra free trip to and from home every year.
commissioned by WCBS-TV News, indicated that 62 per cent of the voters would vote for Powell; 25 per cent said they had not made up their minds. The rest reported no opinion.
The choice of so well-known a personage as Meredith was particularly surprising since it had been widely predicted that the GOP would have trouble finding a Negro of stature to make the race against Powell, whose ouster has acted as a catalyst to solidify virtually all of the major Negro organizations in his support.
Meredith refused to say yesterday whether he thought the Congress was justified in ousting Powell. "No comment, definitely," he said.
But two weeks ago, after Fowell had been stripped of his committee chairmanship and ordered to stand aside, Meredith himself insisted that Powell had been unconstitutionally deprived of his seat and that Powell's Harlem constituency had been illegally deprived of representation.
On Tuesday, however, Meredith conceded he was risking the scorn of Negroes in opposing Powell, but he added:
"I faced the people of the State of Mississippi. How then could I be fearful of my fellow Negroes." Meredith, who acknowledged that he was an enrolled Democrat, said he believed he would make a better congressman than Powell.
Group proposes USIA publicity
It recommended that Congress authorize the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) to make available in the United States the magazines, books, movies and broadcast material it distributes abroad.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)Initial congressional comment indicates there is substantial interest in giving Americans access to the propaganda their government sends abroad, but continued concern over whether the public could be protected from exploitation.
Public Law 402, which sets out
U. S. overseas information policy, contains express safeguards against "agpandaging" the American people through domestic distribution of USIA materials. The organization must never be allowed to become a domestic news agency, Rep. John E. Moss, D-Calif., said, but nevertheless "our people have a right to know what the U.S. Information Agency is doing."
Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 8, 1967
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