The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing
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section of the Civil Rights Bill.
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Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the
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measure without the votes of their strongest supporters.
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President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination
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by everyone for every type of housing 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 in the House Judiciary Committee.
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In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an
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overdoes of narcotics.
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Bruce was 42 years old.
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Dr. Martin Luther King says 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 asked King to call off the march and the
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police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out
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if it is held.
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King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.
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In Chicago Richard Speck, 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 and strangled in their Chicago apartment.
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In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the
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House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-
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Viet Nam war protests.
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Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting
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anti-war slogans.
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Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unles there is a substantial
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increase in the present war effort in Viet Nam, the U.S. should look forward
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to five more years of war.
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In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York,
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Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single
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weapon working against the U.S.
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That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news,
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Goodnight.
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Silent night
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Holy night
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All is calm
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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.
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7 O`clock News/ Silent Night
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