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This is the early evening edition of the news |
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The recent fight in the House of Representatives |
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Was over the open housing section of the Civil Rights Bill |
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Brought traditional enemies together |
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But it left the defenders of the measure |
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Without the votes of their strongest supporters |
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President Johnson originally proposed |
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An outright ban covering discrimination |
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By everyone for every type of housing |
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But it had no chance from the start |
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And everyone in Congress knew it |
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A compromise was painfully worked out |
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In the House Judiciary Committee |
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In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce |
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Died of what was believed to be an |
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Overdoes of narcotics, Bruce was 42 years old |
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Dr Martin Luther King says |
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He does not intend to cancel plans for an open |
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Housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero |
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Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby |
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Asked King to call off the march and the |
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Police in Cicero said, they would ask the |
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National Guard To be called out if it is held |
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King, now in Atlanta, Georgia |
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Plans to return to Chicago Tuesday |
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In Chicago Richard Speck |
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Accused murderer of nine student nurses was brought |
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Before a grand jury today for indictment |
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The nurses were found stabbed |
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An strangled in their Chicago apartment |
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In Washington the atmosphere was tense today |
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As a special subcommittee of the House Committee |
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On un-American activities continued its probe |
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Into anti Vietnam war protests |
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Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings |
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When they began chanting anti-war slogans |
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Former Vice President Richard Nixon |
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Says that unless there is a substantial |
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Increase in the present war effort in Vietnam |
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The US should look forward to five more years of war |
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In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans |
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Of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said |
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Opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single |
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Weapon working against the US |
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That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news, goodnight |
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Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright |
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Round yon virgin mother and child |
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Holy infant so tender and mild |
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Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace |