■ Surprising: Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., speaking in Tallahassee, came out against “instant integration” of schools in five Deep South states; says the Court should have required the schools to submit desegregation plans by Feb., but not to implement them until Sept. . . . Incidentally it was that old segregationist, Judge Clement Haynsworth, who signed the order forcing the Greenville and Darlington, S.C. school districts to integrate by mid-February. . . . The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has taken under advisement a challenge to the Supreme Court’s Miranda decision of 1966 (which held that confessions were not valid unless the defendant had been informed of his right to remain silent). Case being brought by National District Attorney’s Association. . . . The $75,000 libel verdict against Ralph Ginzburg (he libeled Barry Goldwater during the 1964 campaign) will stand; the Supreme Court has refused to reconsider. . . . American Jewish Congress pleased with Supreme Court’s rulings in 1968-1969 term. Eighty per cent of them, says the AJC, were “liberal.”
■ Minority leader Gerald Ford’s staff reportedly still at work gathering evidence for his drive to impeach Justice William O. Douglas, according to Fulton Lewis’ Exclusive. … A bill by Sen. Paul Fannin (R., Ariz) to forbid featherbedding in union contracts has absolutely no chance of being reported out of the Senate Labor Committee, say insiders on the Hill. . . . Much missed, in the Senate, the able floorwork of Sen. Karl Mundt (R., S.D.), now convalescing from a stroke. . . . Michigan Democrats, at their state convention, felt it necessary to pass a vote of confidence in Jean Hart, wife of Senator Phil. She was hauled into court a fortnight ago as result of noisy Mass for Peace at the Pentagon that resulted in 187 arrests. Her activities are hurting Hart’s re-election chances. . . . Committee for an Effective (read it: liberal) Congress has taken look at Nixon’s first year in office, shuddered and given its verdict: the country is moving reactionary-rightward.




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