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Astonishing but true; Only Washington channel not to carry President Johnson’s voting rights speech live was WOOK (Channel 14), the Negro television station. . . . Administration disapproval of Martin Luther King’s proposed boycott of Alabama growing. Commerce Secretary John Connor chose a speech for the United Negro College Fund, in Philadelphia, as occasion to denounce the plan as “unfortunate” and “not in the best interests of the country.” Pennsylvania senators Hugh Scott (R.) and Joe Clark (D.)—good Liberals both —have also blasted the boycott. . . . Sen. Russell Long (D., La. ) is working hard, trying to get a number of other Southern Democrats to join him in approving LBJ’s voting rights bill.

A bust: the meeting of Congo rebel leaders in Cairo last week. They were unable even to issue a statement about why the conference had to be indefinitely adj ourned. . . . Former Pres. Fulbert Youlou of the Congo (Brazzaville), ousted by a pro-Red Chinese regime a year ago, has made good his escape to Léopoldville, can be counted on to help Moise Tshombe oppose the new anti- Tshombe clique in Brazzaville. . . .You can’t make an omelet, etc.: Dr. Hastings Banda of Malawi (ex-Northern Rhodesia) says he proposes staying in power (“maintaining the political stability of the country” is the way he puts it) even if he has to “detain” 10,000 or 100,000 persons. “When a country is building its institutions it has to do many nasty things,” he explains.

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Astonishing but true; Only Washington channel not to carry President Johnson’s voting rights speech live was WOOK (Channel 14), the Negro television station. . . . Administration disapproval of Martin Luther King’s proposed boycott of Alabama growing. Commerce Secretary John Connor chose a speech for the United Negro College Fund, in Philadelphia, as occasion to denounce the plan as “unfortunate” and “not in the best interests of the country.” Pennsylvania senators Hugh Scott (R.) and Joe Clark (D.)—good Liberals both —have also blasted the boycott. . . . Sen. Russell Long (D., La. ) is working hard, trying to get a number of other Southern Democrats to join him in approving LBJ’s voting rights bill.

A bust: the meeting of Congo rebel leaders in Cairo last week. They were unable even to issue a statement about why the conference had to be indefinitely adj ourned. . . . Former Pres. Fulbert Youlou of the Congo (Brazzaville), ousted by a pro-Red Chinese regime a year ago, has made good his escape to Léopoldville, can be counted on to help Moise Tshombe oppose the new anti- Tshombe clique in Brazzaville. . . .You can’t make an omelet, etc.: Dr. Hastings Banda of Malawi (ex-Northern Rhodesia) says he proposes staying in power (“maintaining the political stability of the country” is the way he puts it) even if he has to “detain” 10,000 or 100,000 persons. “When a country is building its institutions it has to do many nasty things,” he explains.