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Cool it, baby: Responsible civil rights leaders shying away from Stokely Carmichael. Floyd McKissick, Martin Luther King and other black power-cum-Vietnik radicals. Says Whitney Young of Urban League: Young Negroes will not vote for a third party peace ticket headed by Martin Luther King. In fact, he says, LBJ has Negro vote wrapped up right now—regardless of whom Republicans nominate. .. . Liberal Atlanta editor Ralph McGill says bluntly that Carmichael’s (and Rap Brown’s) SNCC is “no longer a civil rights organization.” . .. Bayard Rustin—hardly a moderate—says the “separatist methods of the Carmichaels are no help to the American Negro,” who needs white allies; same point made by Sen. Edward Brooke to the NAACP convention in Boston last week.

Largely overlooked: Nasser blockade of Suez Canal means the long long way home for Soviet freighters carrying arms, planes and oil to North Vietnam. USSR believed to be contributing at least 70 per cent of Ho Chi Minh’s war supplies. . . . On other hand, Iron Curtain countries do not face hordes of gasoline-hungry motorists. In 1965, of 19 million cars produced in world, fewer than half a million were built in Soviet and satellites. USSR has only 200 garages (as compared with 221,000 in U.S.); Moscow has eight (8) gasoline stations; USSR, largest country in the world, has only as many miles of paved highway as Michigan. Despite heavy traffic around the Cape, South Africa reports no more than six-hour delay for freighters refueling at Capetown, never more than a day in Durban. . . . Great Britain has its gasoline ration cards all printed, just in case; France (not on Arab boycott list) has already raised the price of gasoline.

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Cool it, baby: Responsible civil rights leaders shying away from Stokely Carmichael. Floyd McKissick, Martin Luther King and other black power-cum-Vietnik radicals. Says Whitney Young of Urban League: Young Negroes will not vote for a third party peace ticket headed by Martin Luther King. In fact, he says, LBJ has Negro vote wrapped up right now—regardless of whom Republicans nominate. .. . Liberal Atlanta editor Ralph McGill says bluntly that Carmichael’s (and Rap Brown’s) SNCC is “no longer a civil rights organization.” . .. Bayard Rustin—hardly a moderate—says the “separatist methods of the Carmichaels are no help to the American Negro,” who needs white allies; same point made by Sen. Edward Brooke to the NAACP convention in Boston last week.

Largely overlooked: Nasser blockade of Suez Canal means the long long way home for Soviet freighters carrying arms, planes and oil to North Vietnam. USSR believed to be contributing at least 70 per cent of Ho Chi Minh’s war supplies. . . . On other hand, Iron Curtain countries do not face hordes of gasoline-hungry motorists. In 1965, of 19 million cars produced in world, fewer than half a million were built in Soviet and satellites. USSR has only 200 garages (as compared with 221,000 in U.S.); Moscow has eight (8) gasoline stations; USSR, largest country in the world, has only as many miles of paved highway as Michigan. Despite heavy traffic around the Cape, South Africa reports no more than six-hour delay for freighters refueling at Capetown, never more than a day in Durban. . . . Great Britain has its gasoline ration cards all printed, just in case; France (not on Arab boycott list) has already raised the price of gasoline.