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The ‘‘reorganization” of the Justice Department in Washington is about complete and resignations are piling up. Attorney General Rogers has reshuffled so many New Deal appointees into key positions that the question now is going the rounds: “Aren’t there any qualified Republican lawyers around any more?”… The FBI is reportedly awaiting the return of U.S. citizens who fought in Cuba for Castro. They may lose their citizenship…. Central Intelligence is in trouble again. Some space-age committee Senators feel CIA evaluations of Soviet missile strength may have been revised to conform to Administration budget policy…. Latest triumph of Fidel Castro’s democracy: suspension of habeas corpus. Castro explained that habeas proceedings slowed up trials and executions of “war criminals.”

Representative Adam Clayton Powell, although second ranking Democrat on the House Education and Labor Committee, loses out on subcommittee chairmanships again this year. When Powell tried to force through a resolution on behalf of his claims, he was voted down 21-7…. Students at the University of Minnesota, who planned to sell 500 “Stamp out Reutherism” buttons at the Goldwater dinner in Minneapolis, were forbidden to do so by the Dean. Reason: college authorities didn’t like the slogan…. Rockefeller forces are said to have picked House minority leader Halleck or Senate minority leader Dirksen, in that order, as a possible 1960 running-mate… New York conservatives plan to be present at the February 11 Albany hearing on Rockefeller’s record budget—to suggest that increasing taxes isn’t the only way to balance a budget.

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The ‘‘reorganization” of the Justice Department in Washington is about complete and resignations are piling up. Attorney General Rogers has reshuffled so many New Deal appointees into key positions that the question now is going the rounds: “Aren’t there any qualified Republican lawyers around any more?”… The FBI is reportedly awaiting the return of U.S. citizens who fought in Cuba for Castro. They may lose their citizenship…. Central Intelligence is in trouble again. Some space-age committee Senators feel CIA evaluations of Soviet missile strength may have been revised to conform to Administration budget policy…. Latest triumph of Fidel Castro’s democracy: suspension of habeas corpus. Castro explained that habeas proceedings slowed up trials and executions of “war criminals.”

Representative Adam Clayton Powell, although second ranking Democrat on the House Education and Labor Committee, loses out on subcommittee chairmanships again this year. When Powell tried to force through a resolution on behalf of his claims, he was voted down 21-7…. Students at the University of Minnesota, who planned to sell 500 “Stamp out Reutherism” buttons at the Goldwater dinner in Minneapolis, were forbidden to do so by the Dean. Reason: college authorities didn’t like the slogan…. Rockefeller forces are said to have picked House minority leader Halleck or Senate minority leader Dirksen, in that order, as a possible 1960 running-mate… New York conservatives plan to be present at the February 11 Albany hearing on Rockefeller’s record budget—to suggest that increasing taxes isn’t the only way to balance a budget.