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1968Year comment on relations between Sen Foreign Relations Com and Johnson

com members complain Johnson does not want their advice; basic problem said to be breakdown of communications between Adm and com Johnson Unit Assails Whites in Negro Riots; Will Urge Drive on Prejudice, Neglect and Ignorance

1968Year Gov Rockefeller's Special Com on Criminal Offenders proposes unification of the 141 agencies handling convicted criminals, juvenile delinquents and troublesome young people into a single Dept of Rehabilitative Services

com members Comr Wyman and Admr T F McCoy dissent; rept criticizes existing fragmented system for precluding continuity of treatment for offenders, backs establishment of treatment units for children, youths and adults under proposed new dept State Group Urges Unification Of 141 Rehabilitative Agencies

1970Year Cong conf com approves $210-million compromise appropriation for liner development, $80-million less than Adm requested and HR approved, but enough to keep project alive

com members confident Sen will accept compromise; approval of measure in HR seen assured; Sen Magnuson calls compromise 'pretty good victory for liner'; says some Sens have assured him since vote that they had not intended to kill project entirely; notes switch in conf com by Sen Smith who opposed $290-million figure; Sen Stennis, backer of project, says many Sens share Smith's change of heart; Pres Nixon in news conf, says arguments of environmentalists can be answered; sees cancellation serious threat to US supremacy in civil aviation; Sen Pastore, while objecting to restoration of funds, reptdly assures Sen Magnuson he will not speak against appropriation; Sen Case refuses to endorse restored funding, says he has not decided whether to join proposed filibuster against it; Stennis maintains view that conf com neither defied nor ignored Sen vote against craft; conferees rept they had difficulty persuading HR to drop below $250-million figure, which they maintained was point where further cutting would create delays in completion of prototypes and add to over-all cost of program; Transportation Dept and Boeing Co reptdly feel sum is enough to forestall breaking up team of scientists, engineers and subcontractors that have been working on project; $210-million compromise seen postponing hardware procurement but keeping design and research work going essentially as before; Sen and HR delegations in conf com were controlled by Sens who back project; conf com members listed CONFEREES ON SST BACK ALLOCATION OF $210‐MILLION

1969Year antiwar rally held in NYC garment center

com members continue reading names of US war dead 2 Midtown Antiwar Rallies Mark Bombing of Hiroshima

1975Year Ford Adm's proposal to sell Jordan $350-million air-defense system runs into critical but not overwhelmingly hostile reaction from Sen Foreign Relations Com

com members criticize proposed sale as unfortunate in its timing and question whether it will alter mil balance in Middle East to Israel's disadvantage; it does not appear that serious move is developing in Sen to block sale; Sen Clifford P Case has introduced resolution to block sale but says he is undecided whether to press it to Sen vote (S) SENATORS CRITICAL OF SALE TO JORDAN

1950Year publisher D Stern 3d and Fritchey at heated Sen com hearing

com members demand apology; Fritchey defends ed; Stern denies being Communist; challenges com to take libel action LOUISIANA EDITORS, LEGISLATORS ROW; Senators Angered by Editorial in New Orleans Item--Clash Nearly Ends in Fist Fight TUSSLES FOR MICROPHONE 'Contempt' Hearing Is Held on the Floor--Newsmen Called 'Newcomers' to the South Publisher and Editor Summoned Editorial Defended

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