Fun and games in the new Congress : Odds seem to favor Sen. Russell Long (Liberal) over Sen. Mike Monroney (Liberaler) and Sen. John Pastore (Liberal— est) to succeed Hubert Humphrey as Majority Whip; but then LBJ has not yet indicated his preference. Their ADA-ACA ratings: Long 17-32; Monroney, 64-13; Pastore, 90-11. . . . One proposal of a Great Society anti-poverty task force presented to Mr. Johnson a month ago has not been heard from since: it called for cash subsidies from the government to individuals with sub par incomes—a kind of reverse income tax. . . . Into the hopper just as soon as the Congress convenes will be a resolution by Sen. George McGovern (D. , S. Dak.) to permit the showing of the USIA-produced John F. Kennedy film to domestic audiences. . . . (In mid-December, the influential Overseas Press Club Bulletin announced a private showing of the film for club members as part of the drive to make an exception in its case and permit its showing in the U.S.)
Dissident Negroes in the South Sudan oppose the Sudanese Government’s support of the pro-Communist Congolese rebels who are being supplied with Egyptian, Algerian, and Ghanaian arms through Juba in the South Sudan. Reason: A number of Sudanese Negroes had been murdered by Congolese rebels in the border areas. . . . The African campaign against Tshombe is being coordinated by Cuban guerrilla expert Che Guevara who has paid two visits in past fortnight to Algiers and is now on a tour of Mali, Ghana, Guinea and the former French Congo, anti-Tshombists all. . . . Latin American opposition to Fidel Castro increasing. The Brazilian Government last week virtually invited the Cuban rebels to set up a government in exile, possibly on Brazilian soil ; and Venezuelan longshoremen have announced they will no longer service ships of nations that trade with Cuba. … Castro guerrillas, quiescent for some months after the Leoni election last winter, have stepped up their terrorist activities.
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