For the Record: 92 per cent of the small businesses burned, looted or ruined during the Watts riots of 1965, have never reopened, according to Ted Watkins, head of the Watts Labor Community Action. . . . First two suspected snipers arrested in Detroit have been held in $200,000 bond; they will be charged with “assault with intent to commit murder.” … Martin Luther King Jr. agreed President Johnson was right to send federal troops to Detroit because “there’s no question that when a riot erupts it has to be halted.” . . . Interesting sidelight: in last Gallup poll on Negro situation, 44 per cent of Negroes said Negroes were treated as well as white people in their community; only 53 per cent believed they were treated less well (73 per cent of whites believe Negroes get same treatment as whites.) . . . Betting in Washington is that Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver won’t last out the year in his present job. He’s the last of the inner Kennedy entourage still in LBJ employ. Rumor persists he’ll run for governor of Illinois in ’68.
France very interested in outcome of Mrs. Tshombe’s habeas corpus appeal to United Nations Commission on Human Rights. If UN accepts her petition, French authorities might go to UN in attempt to get French journalist Regis Debray released from Bolivian prison. Debray is awaiting trial as guerrilla. Other possible applicants for world habeas corpus treatment: various Ivory Coast and Guinean diplomats now residing in house detention in each other’s countries. Only last month, Ivory Coast seized Guinea Foreign Minister Lansana Beovogui, when his plane touched down in Abidjan en route to a UN meeting. It was in retaliation for Sékou Touré’s seizure of an Ivory Coast fishing vessel months before.
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