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Civil Rights Commission Requests Stronger Laws WASHINGTO III - The u.s. Com- leI law to permit the U.S. .ttorney gen­ courts to the Health, Education ana W I· mission on Civil Rights has proposed eral to sue for damages or injunctive re­ fare Department. That sent the percent­ strengthened ci viI and criminal laws to lief in behaU of victims oC harassment or age of Negro students al biracial schoolJ hasten school desegregation in the South intimidation. in the lIOuth up another 5 per cent. a aud in border states. In addition, it proposed that Congress Freedom~f-choice plans, accepted by In a 262-page report submitted to Presi­ enact legislation to make intimidation, in­ the Office of Education, failed to elimin­ dent Johnson and the Congress Tuesday, cluding economic intimidation, a federal ate the previOUS dual school system, the the comml ion concluded that the deseg­ crime. commission round. Rather, the repori said, regation oC school since the 1954 Supreme The report blamed lack of sufflcient they tended to perpetuale segregated edu­ Court deci ion ordering equal education staff in part for a "significant dilution of cation. OH) past ~ . opportunity had been too slow. desegregation requirements and stan­ "During the school year, as in dards during 1966-67 and asked that Con­ previous years, white tudents rarely ~ P~ The commission said violence against gre appropriate funds to enable the 1)e.. choSe to attend Negro schools," tbe re­ Negroes eontlnued to deter many of them parlment of Health, Education and Wel­ port said. from seeklng education alongside white fare to meet manpower needs. n asserted this sy tem placed tbe bur­ children and declared that existing fed­ Tbe comm! ion's report said that in den oC change on the Negro, and Negroes l eral law i inadequate to deal with the Pitt. the first 10 years after the 1954 Snpreme are being subjected to harassment and § situation. Court decisions the number of Negro in timidation. "We do not believe that further delay pupils attending IIchool with whiles in the "Although it does not receive as much in securing rights so fundamental as the 17 Southern and border states previously publicity as in previou years, violence : I tight to equal educational opportunity will requiring or 8uthoriting school segrega­ again t Negroes continues to be a deter­ 3 serve the real interests of any citizen or tion had increased at an average rate oC rent to school desegregat.ion," said Wil­ of the nation," the commi ion said. about 1 per cent per year. liam 1.. Taylor, staCr director of the com­ e Specifically, the comml Ion wanted By the end of 1964-65 about 11 per cenl mission . legislation to permit any Negro child and of the region', Negro students were in He reported that In six of 63 school his parents to bring civil action for dam­ biracial cl.ssrooms. districts visited by the commission staff, re In tAKE, TEXAS·STYLE, w.. tho bill of t...... the T.... AFL- .nniverlllry of Humph ...y'. nomln.tlon to the Yke pi ..I",!ICY, ages against persons who harass or inti­ ot.Il • .t1on Shltt.d investigators found shots had been fired OOrk I CIO Forth Worth con"entlon'. plIrty honorl.,. Vice P ....I.nt .nd Mrs. Humphrey support, her hutbend In his Kf of c""l,,, tho midate them in eonnection with the ,olnlt In 1964, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act into the homes of Negro children who Iy In Mrs. Humphrey Mond.y, The c.ke w., In honor of the third first .lIce, - AP WI,...... child's enrollment at a public school. was enaeled, shifting the obligation of had picked up their option to attend white e on 1 The commission also proposed a paral- achieving desegregation {rom the federal IIchools, Poverty Workers Linked ail Iowan To Agitation Of Riots Seroinl! the University of Iowa and the People of Iowa City WASHINGTON (1\ - A police Itatlon At that time, he tesWied, the Congress jailer from Newark, N.J., brought re­ o[ Racial Equality (CORE) began "vic- Establisbed in 1868 10 cents a cop" Associated Prelll Leased Wire and Wirephoto Jowa City, Iowa 52240-Tuesday, Auguat 8, 1967 newed charges Monday of racial agita­ 10UI, insidious" attacks on the Newark tion against men be linked with the antI­ police department, caLling It a Gestapo of poverty campalgn. brutal, sadistic, murderous men, Patrolman Leonard F. Kowalewski lest­ "They held court, they were judge, Wed as members of the Senate Judiciary trial and jury out In the streets," Kowa­ Gommlttee argued over the course of lewski .ald, their Inquiry into big city riots. For three days, the hearings have cen­ tered on the role ot the Omce of Econ­ 2 Cops Charged Viet Tactics Evaluated omic Opportunity - the antipoverty agen­ cy which now iJ seeking congressional SAIGON !.fI - Failure of mass.lve U,S, How was it that air power could be 110 ef­ ing their war here with oura, but the PlY­ to understand how the enemy can contJnue approval for a $2-blilion budset, Ilrepower to break Communist morale and fective, for example, in German warfare chological motives are the same," to suffer such heavy casualties, eDiage in With Murdering against the Greeks In World War n, or Another source said that In the American batllea knowing that he will be mercilessly Kowalewski, presldent of the New Jer­ fighting spirit has forced a major revalua· Israeli warfare against the Arabs in 1967, Revolution, "we used ambush, unconven­ hammered by shell and bomb with no de­ sey Order of Pollcemen, made his com­ tion of the Viet Cong guerrilla warrior in and yet be so IneCfective in American war­ tional tactics and other tricks to take the fense and st.iIl come back for more, plaint about the United Community Corp., 2 Detroit Teens South Vietnam. fare on the Vietnamese Communists? edge oCf the British advantage, just as the (vCC) Newark's poverty agency, Lt. Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Comman­ Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D·Mass.) de­ DETROIT III - Two white poLicemen A continuing search for radically new The biggest reason seems to be geo­ Viet Cong are now." der of U.S. Marines in Vietnam, told a tactics with improved equipment has tum, graphy, terrain. Greece is a largely bar­ The Unlled States face. a 1T0wing stale­ manded detailed cbarges and documenta­ were charged Monday with murder in the newsman: tion. shotiWl .Iaylng of two Negro teenagers, ed up nothing essentially new to combat ren country and the Middle East is largely mate in the war, at least until new fight­ "They take heavy casualties from the the Communists' highly effective mobile desert, where target torces found little ing troops arrive. The offensive pressure KnowllClte Of UCC Limited found dead in • midtown motel at the peak air and artillery. Apparently they don't "My knowledge of the UCC has been of Delroit', racYI flit. warfare techniques. place to hide. But South Vietnam is largely or the enemy has lessened, but his deser· care if they throwaway their young men," Impenetrable jungle. tion rate is dropping, Although enemy de­ limited to seeing these people picket and The motel - The Algiers - stands on Is it a failure of heavy conventional Cire· demonstrate," Kowalewski acknowledged, power and of enormous air superiority? "Hundreds oC tons oC bombs and shells fections have nearly doubled over the &arne In some area morale Is bad, intelligence bu.y Woodward Avenue on the fringe of every day are fired or dropped blindly period last year, the number iJ about half officers believe. But they say these spotty "That's a good deal different from what the near West Side section where a week in the jungle making matchsticks," said that of those deserting their government reports show no sien of a trend, Leadership you've said previou ly," Kennedy said. of pillaging, burning and IInlper activity one U.S. source. "It's very seldom we real­ posts, and include but a few of the bard­ has weakened in some area also, but over­ However Kowalewski Insisted that Ne­ broke out July 23. Viet Cong Down ly have a good target and actually hit it." core fighters or important officers or po­ all, new officers and noneoms also seem gro demonstrations and civil disobedi­ II is the same one where several persons liticalleaderl, to be in good supply on the enemy side, ence over a Dve.year period created the registered al gwests claimed they were T.ctlcs Dlff,rent climate which produced five days of racial lined up against a wall, beaten with gun­ Another factor Is the enemy use of guer­ Mor.le Rem.ln. HI.,. Government figurea show that so far this Concern is high here over the Commun­ year, 18,987 have left the Communiat side rioting. Twenty.seven persons were kill­ butts and threatened with death by 16 or 5 U.S. Copters, rilla and ambush tactics, a far cry from ed . 17 "uniformed men" in search of snipers. the conventional wars o[ Europe. The head ists' ability to maintain their morale and and turned themselves into the govern­ higb fighting spirit, Until these can be ment. In the same period lasl year, 10,523 Kennedy asked Kowalewski who he was Tbe gue Is claimed two Negro youths of one intelligence section compared tbe repre enllng in the witness chair, were shotlo death by one of the uniformed Wound General Vietnamese situation to the American Re­ broken, no military victory appears possi­ deserted. However most of these were ble.

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