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24 1968 Colorado SppIkh, Cob. GaiaHt 3 Big Days! Shop Thnrs. and Fri. to Your Dollars Go Further at Sears BUNKER GRANDSON PLANS TO RENOUNCE Bunker Gentil, 17, Braziliain-born grandson of U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker, chats with coed Karen Teia- more on the campus of the University of Southern California.

Gentil says he plans to renounce his U.S. citizenship because he feels his future is in Brazil, consider myself more Brazilian than Gentil says of himself. (AP Wirephoto) ALLEN-SCOTT REPORT Paul Scon Rebort S. Allon President'inciting of other persons to riot'to a floor vote early in Febru- decision to leave the to commit any act of vio- yoblem of race rioters to local i jj, furtherance of a That's the private report 3aw enforcement officials has; House-approved 0 Majority Leader Carl Al- presented a strong new weapon! House appo ea has given to to Senate opponents of one were defeated oyjsgnator Mike Monroney, his major civil rights margins in the principle author of the They are now using the Presi-j Judiciary Committee, which anti-crime statement ini cleared the controversial did you ever arrange their fight to kill or drastically I rights measure by a asked Monroney. alter legislation intended to pro- ing eight to seven vote.

warned them that the tect individuals in the exercise in mounting their had decided to of a wide variety of civil Eastland group will a major campaign issue Headed by Senator James to label the administration inaction on re- Eastland, chairman of rights proposal publicly as replied Albert, Senate Judiciary protection measure have enough cam- mittee, these opponents are at-jagitators like Brown and problems without having a i the face that issue measure in the Senate, where it This attack plan is clearly indicated in the minority report is now being debated. The group is circulating a memorandum charging, provisions of this (civil rights) bill could be used to harass and deter local law enforcement The Eastland group memo calls attention to the declaration in his State-of-the- Union address, who preach disorder and those who preach violence must know that local authorities are able to resist them swiftly, to resist them sternly, and to resist them Then it warns: is manifestly unfair to put these local officials in the front of the struggle to maintain Ta society of law and order while I placing them under the terrible omnipresent threat of being hailed into federal court on a criminal charge because the torney general determines they vhad used an unreasonable -amount of force in suppressing Ja SAFEGUARDS To jiile out this the group will attempt to add the civil -lights proposal an amendment written into a similar bill on the floor. It provides: within this sec- shall be construed so as to "deter any law enforcement offi- from lawfully carrying out iHhe lawful duties of his (rffice no such officer shall be con- Hsidered to be in violation oi this for carrying out the law- duties of his office or enforc- lawful ordinances and laws the U.S. or their political In addition to this protection local law enforcement offi the Eastland group will to add to the Senate bill Panother House-passed hnwit, designed to make sure bill used to protect such as H. Rap Brown The reform bill, approved on March 7 by a 75 to 9 roll-call marcn uy a prepared by Senators Eastland as and Strom Thurmond, Legislative Reorganization tirUinVi which charges: bill will give added protection to roving fomentors of Act of 1968.

It provides: of for com mittees; a Senate Veterans af- Oclldic vci-ciaiio ai violence, such as Stokely committee; more syste- michael and H. Rap Brown. its terms and provisions, if a person had been present during the inflammatory speech of H. Rap Brown which led to the Cambridge, riots matic informing of Congress on budgetary matters; increased committee staffs and a legislative assistant for each senator; a permanent joint committee on congressional operations to work on July 24, 1967, and, becoming matters of common interest enraged at the inflammatory Senate and House; elim- slatements made by Brown, had shouted a threat to him from the audience, that person could ination of patronage in the selection of postmasters; and the audience, that person couia of the lobby reg-! be tried under this act and fined up to and imprisoned for distributed 1968, Pand one year. If such person had jumped up on the platform and struck Brown, giving him a bloody nose, he could be punished by 10 years in prison and fined up to $10,000.

No punishment coild be imposed on H. Rap Brown under these The Eastland group is also planning to offer the House-passed anti-riot bill as an amendment to the civil rights measure. Senators Edward Kennedy, and Phillip Hart, co-authors of the bill, blocked a similar effort in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Since the House by a 347 to 70 vote passed the anti-riot bill last July, Senators Kennedy and Hart have also succeeded in keeping the Judiciary mittee from reporting it out as a separate bill. Unless it is set aside other legislation, Senate debate on the civil rights proposal could tie up that body until next spring.

Since liberal supporters are planning to try to attach an open housing amendment to the bill, both supporters and opponents are threatening to Publishcrs-Hall Syndicate) (All Rights Reserved) White House Fellows For Speech Urged WASHINGON (AP) House Speaker John W. McCormack says female White House fellows should have been allowed on the House floor for the Presi- State of the Union speech. McCormack commented after published reports indicated the women were irked because male fellows were seated on the floor during the speech while their female colleagues were denied entrance. White House fellows are young college graduates picked by a commission to spend a year in government work. The House doorkeeper, William Miller, said the late speaker Sam Rayburn first permitted the fellows to attend the annual speech in 1961 but He told me not to let any girls on the Stokely Carmichael, the! the measure fw iBIack Power militants.

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